Workshop "Looking for Non-Future Tense"
(NFT Workshop)

The NFT workshop aims to contribute to the formal, typological analysis of tense and more specifically, in languages or clausal structures which lack surface/overt tense marking.

i) Diagnostics/arguments for null Non-Future tense in surface tenseless languages, discriminating 3 lines of analyses: positing no syntactic tense vs. covert underspecified tense vs. covert Non-Future tense (Bittner 2005, Matthewson 2006, Sybesma 2007, Tonhauser 2010, Thomas 2012, Sun 2014, Bochnak 2016 a.o.) 

ii) Diagnostics/arguments for overt Non-Future tense in e.g. Karitiana (Storto 2003, Ferreira & Müller 2019) and Old Egyptian (Reintges 1995)  

iii) (Non-)Future and futurates (Copley 2008)

iv) Interactions between aspect and Non-Future

v) Verbal vs. nominal tense marking 

Date: May 19-20, 2022

Host: Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes

(LLING_UMR 6310, Nantes Université/CNRS)

Venue: Lab de la BU Droit, Nantes Université

Chemin de la Censive du Tertre - 44300 Nantes

Coordinators

Hongyuan Sun (CERCLL UR4283, Université de Picardie Jules Verne)

Marta Donazzan (LLING UMR 6310, Nantes Université/CNRS)

Hamida Demirdache (LLING UMR 6310, Nantes Université/CNRS)


Organizing Committee

Elisabeth Heredia Murillo

Hafida Iguir

Kryzzya Gómez

Maël Michaud

Pauline Tison