11.2424, Confs: The Syntax of Tense and Aspect

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Subject: 11.2424, Confs: The Syntax of Tense and Aspect

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Date:  Wed, 08 Nov 2000 20:11:12 +0000
From:  "Jacqueline Lecarme" <jl at cra.cnrs.fr>
Subject:  Confs: The Syntax of Tense and Aspect / Paris

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Date:  Wed, 08 Nov 2000 20:11:12 +0000
From:  "Jacqueline Lecarme" <jl at cra.cnrs.fr>
Subject:  Confs: The Syntax of Tense and Aspect / Paris

                       CONFERENCE PROGRAM
                    INTERNATIONAL ROUND TABLE
                 `The Syntax of Tense and Aspect'
                    Paris, 15-18 November 2000


The Round Table is organized by the Jeune Equipe "Syntaxe anglaise et
syntaxe comparative", Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle, and the
Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, CNRS-Université Paris VII. It will
be held on Wednesday through Saturday, November 15th to 18th 2000, at
Université Paris VII, Campus Jussieu (Métro Jussieu).



Wednesday, November 15, 2000
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10h00-12h00 Welcome and registration

14h00-14h15 Opening Remarks

14h15-15h00 James A. Higginbotham, Oxford University & USC:
            On the Expression of Tense and Aspect

15h00-15h45 Michela Ippolito, MIT:
            The Imperfect and Modality

15h45-16h30 Nomi Erteschik-Shir & Tova Rapoport, University Ben Gurion
            Le Negev:
            Bare Aspect: a Theory of Syntactic Projection

16h30-16h45 Pause

16h45-17h30 Alain Rouveret, Université Paris 8:
            Dependent Tense Dependencies

17h30-18h15 Mario Barra, Université Paris 8:
            Sous-spécification et sur-spécification du temps comme
            déclencheurs de la subordination

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Thursday, November 16, 2000
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9h00-9h45  Richard Larson, State University of New York at Stony Brook:
           Temporal relations inside DP/NP - with particular attention
           to the differences between relative clauses and attributive
           adjectives

9h45-10h30 Abdelkader Fassi Fehri, (IERA - Université Mohammed V)
           How `Aspectual' is Arabic?

10h30-10h45 Pause

10h45-11h30 Susan Rothstein, Bar-Ilan University:
            Incrementality and the Structure of Accomplishments

11h30-12h15 Denis Delfitto, University of Utrecht:
            Imperfective Aspect at the Interpretive Interface

12h15-14h00 Pause

14h00-14h45 Tim Stowell, UCLA:
            Tense and Modals

14h45-15h30 Hamida Demirdache & Myriam Uribe Etxebarria, Université
            de Nantes & University of the Basque Country and
            Basque Center for Language Research (LEHIA):
            Tenses, Aspects and Time Adverbs as Spatio-Temporal Predicates

15h30-16h15 Brenda Laca, Université Paris 8:
            Romance Verbal Periphrases and the distinction between
            lexical and viewpoint aspect

16h15-16h30 Pause

16h30-17h15 Karen Zagona, University of Washington:
            Complement Clause Tense Dependencies and Aspectual Composition

17h15-18h00 Beth Levin & Malka Rappaport-Hovav, Stanford University &
            the Hebrew University of Jerusalem:
            Another Perspective on the Aspectual Determinants of Argument
            Expressions

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Friday, November 17, 2000
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9h00-9h45  Angelika Kratzer, University of Massachusetts:
           Telicity and the Meaning of Objective Case

9h45-10h30 Yves D'Hulst, Liliane Tasmowski & Martine Coene, Université
           d'Anvers-UIA):
           Future in the Past: Italian and Western Romance Conditional

10h30-10h45 Pause

10h45-11h30 Dorit Abusch, IMS Stuttgart:
            The Temporal Composition of Infinitives

11h30-12h15 Philippe Schlenker, ENS & USC:
            Tense and Semantic Uniformity

12h15-14h00 Pause

14h00-14h45 Mürvet Enç, University of Wisconsin-Madison:
            Rethinking Past Tense

14h45-15h30 Alexandra Cornilescu, University of Bucarest:
            On Aspect and Case

15h30-16h15 Sandro Zucchi, Universita di Salerno:
            The Present Mode

16h15-16h30 Pause

16h30-17h15 Carlota Smith, Texas University:
            The Domain of Tense

17h15-18h00 Celia Jakubovicz & Léa Nash, CNRS, Paris & Université Paris 8:
            Sur l'acquisition des structures temporelles et aspectuelles

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Saturday, November 18, 2000
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9h00-9h45  Alessandra Giorgi & Fabio Pianesi, Università  di Bergamo &
           ITC-IRST, Trento:
           (Title to be announced)

9h45-10h30 Jacqueline Lecarme, CNRS, Paris:
           (Un)interpretable Tense in the Noun Phrase

10h30-10h45 Pause

10h45-11h30 Jacqueline Guéron, Université Paris 3:
            Tense Interpretation and the Argument Structure of Auxiliaries

11h30-12h15 Rose-Marie Déchaine & Victor Manfredi, University of
            British Columbia & Boston University:
            Interpreting Null Tense

12h15-13h00 David Pesetsky & Esther Torrego, MIT & University of
            Massachusetts, Boston:
            The Syntax of Tense and the Nature of Case

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FURTHER INFORMATION

Website for the Round Table:
http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/TA.html

For further information, email
gueron at ext.jussieu.fr (Jacqueline Guéron)
lecarme at cra.cnrs.fr (Jacqueline Lecarme)

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