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

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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.

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