Abstracts

Daniel Altshuler
Hampshire College & University of Massachusetts
Does Viewpoint Aspect Make Reference to Time?

 

John Beavers
The University of Texas at Austin
Change-of-State in the Roots of Verbs: A Typological Study

 

Jürgen Bohnemeyer
University at Buffalo - SUNY
Mysteries of the Future

 

Frank Brisard
University of Antwerp
The Epistemic Meaning of the Progressive

 

Astrid De Wit
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Aspect in Performative Contexts Across Languages

 

Claire Bonial
Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
Choosing an Event Description: What a PropBank Study Reveals about the Contrast between Light Verb Constructions and Counterpart Synthetic Verbs
 

Stephen Dickey
University of Kansas
Time Out of Time: Russian and Slavic Aspect in Non-Temporal Contexts and
Epistemic Immediacy as a Common Denominator for Unauxiliated Preterits and Mirative Utterances in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian: An Accessibility Approach

Silvia Gennari
University of York, UK
Event Structure and Event Duration in Language Comprehension

 

Jean-Pierre Koenig
University of Buffalo
Cross-linguistic Variation in Event Structure

 

Teenie Matlock
University of California, Merced
A Look at the Role of Aspect in Reasoning about Events

 

 

Peter Petré
University of Antwerp
Corpus Meets Experiment. Extravagance in the Expansion History of Progressive [BE Ving]

 

James Pustejovsky
Brandeis University
Mapping from Surface to Abstract Event Structures in Language

 

Elly van Gelderen
Arizona State University
Changes in Inner and Outer Aspect

 

Don Winford
Ohio State University
Completive Aspect Markers in Caribbean Creoles: From Completion to Temporal Priority and Associated Pragmatic Functions