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.