Programme
II Tenselessness, Lisbon - Workshop programme
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Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
Room B3 (in the library building)
Thursday 3rd October 2019
9:00-9:20 Registration
9:20-9:30 Welcome notes by
María J. Arche CREL Director
Ana Maria Martins Director of FLUL’s Area of Language Sciences
9:30-10:30 Keynote session: Antonio Fábregas, University of Tromsø
What temporal and aspectual prefixes tell us about the information that N and A don't
10:30-11:10 António Leal, Purificação Silvano & João Cordeiro, Universidade do Porto
11:10-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:10 Yuyin He, Harvard University
Does a tensed analysis require tense-aspect operators?
12:10-12:50 Chou Mo & Bert Le Bruyn, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS
The absence/presence of aspectual markers in narrative discourse in Mandarin
12:50-14:20 Lunch
14:20-15:20 Keynote session: Anne Mucha, Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim
15:20-16:00 Athina Ntalli, Theodora Alexopoulou, Henriette Hendriks & Ianthi Tsimpli, University of Cambridge
The acquisition of finiteness by Chinese and Russian child L2 learners of English
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30- 17:30 Keynote session: Martina Wiltschko, ICREA and Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Interactional TENSE: the time of grounding propositions
17:30 Wine Reception
19:15 Informal Conference Dinner – Casa do Lago, Jardim do Campo Grande
Friday 4th October 2019
9:30-10:30 Keynote session: Telmo Móia, Universidade de Lisboa
Anaphoric and deictic temporal adjuncts in tenseless clauses in Portuguese
10:30-11:10 Purificação Silvano, Luís Filipe Cunha & António Leal, Universidade do Porto
How tenseless are non-finite forms? The case of the Infinitive and Gerund in European Portuguese
11:10-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:10 Brian Gravely & Timothy Gupton, University of Georgia
Microvariation and tenselessness: two cases from Romance
12:10-12-50 Roumyana Pancheva & Maria Luisa Zubizarreta, University of Southern California
Future time reference in Paraguayan Guaraní
12:50-14:20 Lunch
14:20-15:00 Jürgen Bohnemeyer, University at Buffalo
Counterfactuality in a tenseless language: beyond the tense-mood confound
15:00-15:40 Dmitry Gerasimov, Russian Academy of Sciences
Future reference is modal in Paraguayan Guaraní: Evidence from causal clauses
15:40- 16:10 Coffee Break
16:10-17:10 Keynote session: Judith Tonhauser, The Ohio State University / University of Stuttgart
A time-relational framework for the temporal interpretation of noun phrases
17:10-17:50 Open table and final discussion