Workshop Exclamatives in Sign Languages

Workshop on Exclamatives in Sign Languages

The workshop will be held on Friday 19 Sept 2025 at UAR Pouchet, in Paris.

10:00 – 11:00

Invited Talk

Elena Castroviejo (University of the Basque Country)

Exclamatives in Semantics and Pragmatics: Core Questions and Current Debates

11:00- 11:30 

Carlo Geraci (IJN and CNRS) & Charlotte Hauser (SFL, Paris 8 University and CNRS)

OHLALA! Exclamatives in LSF: Methods and Preliminary Results 

Coffee Break

12:00 – 12:30 

Giorgio Zani (University of Turin)

Emotions vs. Grammar: Disentangling the contribution of non-manuals in LIS exclamatives

12:30  - 13:00

Josep Quer (ICREA-Pompeu Fabra University)

Exclamative sentences in LSC: a first approach

Lunch break

14:30  -15:30

Invited Talk

Raffaella Zanuttini  (Yale University)

Syntactic properties of exclamative clauses

15:30 - 16:30 

Elizaveta Khakhalina (LLF, Paris Cité University)

Exclamative sentences in Russian Sign Language: findings from recent experimental work

Coffee break

16:30 – 17:00

Emmanuella Martinod & Michael Filhol (LISN, University Paris-Saclay & CNRS) 

Exclamation in French Sign Language through the AZee approach

17:00 – 17:30 

Marianthi Koraka, Markus Steinbach, Nina-Kristin Meister (University of Göttingen)

Investigating exclamatives in Greek Sign Language

Short break

17:45 – 18:45 General discussion 

Organizers/ organisateurs : Structures Formelles du Langage (SFL, CNRS and Paris 8 University), Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle  (LLF, CNRS and Paris Cité University) & IRN Typologie à travers les modalités (CNRS)

Location: 

Salle Conference, 59 rue Pouchet, 75017 Paris

Contact : carlo.cecchetto123 [at] gmail.com