Program

All talks and coffee breaks are held in the Flatirons Room, Center for Community (third floor). Each talk is 45 minutes, with 35 minutes for presentation and a 10-minute question period. Download presentations from links below. Click here for a printable program. 

Friday 7 April, Flatirons Room, Center for Community (C4C)

8h30-9h00

Introduction, Andrew Cowell, Chair, CU Linguistics; Laura Michaelis, Frank Brisard & Astrid De Wit, workshop organizers

Cross-linguistic Observations

9h00-9h45

Stephen Dickey, ‘Time Out of Time: Russian and Slavic Aspect in Non-Temporal Contexts’

presentation handout

9h45-10h30

Astrid De Wit & Frank Brisard, ‘Aspect in Performative Contexts across Languages’ 

presentation

10h30-11h00: Coffee break

11h00-11h45

Jürgen Bohnemeyer, ‘Mysteries of the Future’ 

presentation

11h45-12h30

Don Winford, ‘Completive Aspect Markers in Caribbean Creoles: From Completion to Temporal Priority and Associated Pragmatic Functions’

presentation

12h30-13h40: Lunch in Treehouse room, C4C Dining Center (second floor)

Computational Approaches

13h40-14h25

James Pustejovsky, 'Mapping from Surface to Abstract Event Structures in Language'

presentation

14h25-15h10

Claire Bonial, ‘Choosing an Event Description: What a PropBank Study Reveals about the Contrast between Light Verb Constructions and Counterpart Synthetic Verbs’

15h10-15h30

Discussion, Martha Palmer, CU Departments of Computer Science and Linguistics (discussant)

15h30-15h50: Coffee break

Psycholinguistic Approaches

15h50-16h35

Silvia Gennari, ‘Event Structure and Event Duration in Language Comprehension’ 

presentation

16h35-17h20

Teenie Matlock, 'A Look at the Role of Aspect in Reasoning about Events' 

presentation

17h20-17h40

Discussion, Al Kim, CU Institute of Cognitive Science and Department of Psychology and Neuroscience (discussant)

19h30: Dinner, Arcana Restaurant, 909 Walnut Street, Boulder, CO 80302

Saturday 8 April, Flatirons Room, C4C

Diachrony

9h00-9h45

Elly van Gelderen, ‘Changes in Inner and Outer Aspect’ 

presentation

9h45-10h30

Peter Petré, ‘Corpus Meets Experiment. Extravagance in the Expansion History of Progressive [BE Ving]’

presentation

10h30-11h00: Coffee break

Mirativity and Epistemicity

11h00-11h30

Stephen Dickey, 'Epistemic Immediacy as a Common Denominator for Unauxiliated Preterits and Mirative Utterances in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian: An Accessibility Approach'

presentation handout

11h30-12h10

Frank Brisard & Astrid De Wit, ‘The Epistemic Meaning of the Progressive’ 

presentation

12h10-12h30

Discussion, Frank Brisard & Astrid De Wit (language change, extravagance, mirativity, epistemicity)

12h30-13h40: Lunch in Treehouse Room, C4C dining center (second floor)

Event Structure and Lexical-Semantic Interfaces

13h40-14h25

Daniel Altshuler, ‘Does Viewpoint Aspect Make Reference to Time?’ 

presentation

14h25-15h10

Jean-Pierre Koenig, ‘Cross-Linguistic Variation in Event Realization’

presentation

15h10-15h30: Coffee break

15h30-16h15

John Beavers, 'Change-of-State in the Roots of Verbs: A Typological Study'

presentation

16h15-17h00

Laura Michaelis, ‘Some Tenses are State Selectors and why this Matters for Conditional Uses’ 

presentation 

17h-17h30

General discussion

19h: Dinner, Zolo Grill, 2525 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, CO 80302