Evidentials Fest at OSU

The 8th Annual OSU Martin Luther King Day Linguistics Symposium

January 14 - 15, 2011



We are pleased to announce the Evidentials Fest, a workshop dedicated to evidentiality, to be held on January 14 and 15, 2011, in Columbus, Ohio. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on evidentiality from descriptive, formal semantic, cross-linguistic and/or historical perspectives, with the goal of fostering a cross-disciplinary and cross-linguistic discussion of evidentials and evidential systems.

Invited speakers

• Victor Friedman, University of Chicago
• Lisa Matthewson, University of British Columbia
• Sarah Murray, Cornell University

OSU speakers

• Brian Joseph
• Jungmee Lee
• Anastasia Smirnova
• Judith Tonhauser

Please click here for the Call for Papers.

Here's the program of the workshop here.

And here's a link to the history of the Martin Luther King symposia at OSU.



The workshop is organized by Brian Joseph, Craige Roberts and Judith Tonhauser. For financial support, we thank the Department of Linguistics and the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at The Ohio State University.



Please contact evidentials "at" ling.osu.edu with questions or comments.