Beyond Time: Unifying Temporal and Non-Temporal Uses of Aspectual Constructions

Beyond Time: A Workshop on Aspectual Meaning

Sponsors

This international interdisciplinary workshop is funded entirely by the University of Colorado Boulder, through the generous support of these campus units:

The Department of Linguistics

The Vice Chancellor for Research

The Institute of Cognitive Science

The Graduate Commitee for Arts and Humanities

The College of Arts and Sciences

This interdisciplinary workshop is intended to develop our understanding of how humans conceptualize events through language and how they extend the linguistic resources available for event descriptions to new, non-temporal functions, including affective functions, evidential functions and discourse-pragmatic functions. Scholars of linguistic cognition from a variety of backgrounds will offer findings in corpus linguistics, diachronic linguistics, psycholinguistics, linguistic typology and computational modeling that illuminate the ways in which linguistic cultures leverage the linguistic conventions devised for situation reports.

News

Altshuler

Daniel Altshuler speaks at the Beyond Time Workshop on Saturday, April 8. Beyond Time presentations are available for download here. 

Center for Community
The workshop will be held in CU's state-of-the-art Center for Community, a 320,000 square-foot LEED-certified facility that houses campus services, dining, cafes and lounges, and offers unparalleled views of the surrounding mountains. 
Uganda

The arresting images on this site were taken by CU LING doctoral Student Samuel Beer. With partial funding from the NSF, Sam created a grammar of Nyang'i, a nearly extinct Kuliak language spoken in Northwestern Uganda.

Boulder Marriott

Workshop participants will be housed at the downtown Boulder Marriott on Canyon Blvd., a nine-minute walk from the conference site. 

Cowell
CU Linguistics chair Andy Cowell will welcome workshop members on the morning of April 7. Listen to this Colorado Public Radio interview with Andy on his efforts to preserve Arapaho, an Algonquian language historically based in the plains of Colorado and Wyoming.