16.1419, Confs: Semantics/Syntax/Cambridge, UK

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Date: 02-May-2005
From: Heidi Harley < hharley at email.arizona.edu >
Subject: LAGB Satellite Workshop on Perfectivity and Telicity 

	
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Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 11:40:22
From: Heidi Harley < hharley at email.arizona.edu >
Subject:  LAGB Satellite Workshop on Perfectivity and Telicity 
 

LAGB Satellite Workshop on Perfectivity and Telicity 

Date: 04-Sep-2005 - 04-Sep-2005 
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom 
Contact: Heidi Harley 
Contact Email: hharley at email.arizona.edu 
Meeting URL: http://linguistics.arizona.edu/~hharley/2005Workshop/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax;
Typology 

Meeting Description: 

A one-day workshop focussing on perfective viewpoint aspect and telic aktionsart
and their interaction, from semantic, syntactic and psycholinguistic viewpoints,
sponsored by the British Academy. 

The program for the LAGB Satellite Workshop on Perfectivity and Telicity is now
available on the workshop webpage, with links to the abstracts for each of the
papers, here:

http://dingo.sbs.arizona.edu/~hharley/2005Workshop/WorkshopProgram.html

Instructions on how to register for the workshop are given here:

http://dingo.sbs.arizona.edu/~hharley//2005Workshop/Registration.html

Note that to get the early registration discount, or to reserve a room in the
college, you must register before August 15, 2005.

The program is as follows:

Saturday September 3 2005: Scandinavian Session
(Trust Room, Fitzwilliam College)

4.30- 5.00
Anne Tamm (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary, Budapest):
Perfectivity and telicity in Estonian

5.00- 5.30
Mai Tungseth (Tromsø):
ResultP and interpretations of telicity: interactions of particles, adjectival
resultatives and benefactive double object constructions in Nor.

5.30- 5.45
Break

5.45- 6.15
Kristin M. Johannsdottir (British Columbia) :
The two progressive constructions in Icelandic and  their interaction with
temporal adverbs

6.15- 6.45
Ingebjørg Tonne  (Oslo University College):
Elucidating Norwegian Progressives

7.00
Dinner
 

Sunday September 4 2005: Main session
(Trust Room, Fitzwilliam College)

9.30- 10.30
Hamida Demirdache (Nantes)
TBA

10.30- 11.30
Karen Zagona (Washington):
Viewpoint Aspect and the Syntax of Event-Structure/Time-Structure Mismatches

11.30- 12.00
Break

12.00- 13.00
Jaqueline Gueron (Paris VII):
TBA

13.00- 14.00
Lunch

14.00- 15.00
Tamara Nicol (Johns Hopkins):
The Interaction of Verb Selectivity, Telicity, and Perfectivity in the Implicit
Object Construction

15.00- 16.00
Angeliek van Hout (Groningen)
Perfect understandings:  Acquisition of perfect tense in Dutch and Italian and
perfective aspect in Polish

16.00- 16.15
Break

16.15-17.15
David Basilico (Alabama):
The Syntactic Representation of Perfectivity

17.15- 18.15
Berit Gehrke (Utrecht):
The aspectual nature of Slavic prefixes

18.15- 19.15
Gillian Ramchand (Tromsø)
Distinguishing Event Structure from Temporal Structure

19.15
Dinner


Alternates

Leora Bar-el (SOAS/UBC): Event Cancellation/Continuation: Perfectivity Tests or
Telicity Tests?
Alison Gabriele (CUNY): Why ''is arriving'' can also mean ''has arrived'' for
Japanese learners of English
Sheila Glasbey (Birmingham): A ''temporal topic interval'' analysis of the
English perfect
Marko Malink (Leipzig): Achievements under Negation





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