28.2576, Calls: Lang Acquisition, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/United Kingdom

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Subject: 28.2576, Calls: Lang Acquisition, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/United Kingdom

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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 12:49:18
From: Maria J. Arche [m.j.arche at greenwich.ac.uk]
Subject: Tenselessness

 
Full Title: Tenselessness 

Date: 05-Oct-2017 - 06-Oct-2017
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Maria J. Arche
Meeting Email: m.j.arche at greenwich.ac.uk

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

Call Deadline: 10-Jul-2017 

Meeting Description:

This workshop is about the syntax and semantics of verbal forms that lack
morphological tense marking. Its aim is to bring together researchers working
on tenseless languages and uninflected clauses together to discuss the
following questions concerning tenselessness.

Tense locates the situation we speak about in time, which is crucial for
adequate comprehension. Can a clause or a language be tenseless, then?
Infinitives and many languages in the world lack tense indication (e.g.,
Mandarin Chinese, Salishan Lillooet, Halkomelem, in British Columbia,
Algonquian Blackfoot in Alberta, Kalaallisut in Greenland, Guaraní and Ayoreo
in Paraguay, Yucatec Maya in Mexico, Navajo in Southern US, or Hausa in West
Africa). However, to discern whether such absence is a case of phonologically
null morphemes or absence of Tense altogether is intricate. While Matthewson
(2006) defends that tense content cannot be ruled out for Blackfoot, Ritter &
Wiltschko (2014) argue that person and location constitute the substance of
Inflection. In the absence of tense, other categories, e.g., Mood (in
Kalaallisut, Bittner 2014 or Hausa, Mucha 2015) or Aspect (Lin 2012 for
Chinese) are said to establish temporal interpretation. However, this
formalisation and whether these are mere tendencies is debated (Klein et al
2000). Finally, what light can uninflected forms (e.g., infinitives) shed onto
the issue? Some authors (Wurmbrand 2014) argue all are tenseless, while others
(Stowell 1982) defend only certain types are with aspect being the temporal
provider too (Stowell 2007; Zwart 2014).

AIM of the workshop: to bring together researchers working on tenseless
languages and uninflected clauses together to discuss tenselessness:

- What counts as evidence of a null but present Tense or no Tense at all? 
- How are subject licensing phenomena (e.g., Nominative case) accounted for in
the absence of Tense?
- How is temporal interpretation obtained and acquired in the absence of
explicit cues? 
- How does temporal interpretation work in uninflected cases in tensed
languages?
 
Invited speakers: 

Professor Wolfgang Klein, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics 
Professor Lisa Matthewson, University of British Columbia 
Professor Jan-Wouter Zwart, University of Groningen


Call for Papers:

We welcome abstracts for 30-minute papers (plus 10 min for discussion)
addressing one or more issues about the syntax and semantics of Tense and its
morphological null expression and its acquisition. The language of the
workshop is English. Abstracts only containing the title of the presentation
should be submitted to m.j.arche at greenwich.ac.uk in pdf format. Abstracts
should be no longer than two pages, including examples and references, with
2.5 cm margins in 12-point Times, single-spaced. A website about the event
will be made available in due course.
 
Notification of acceptance: 14th August, 2017.

Scientific Committee:
Dr María J. Arche (University of Greenwich)
Prof Pier Marco Bertinetto (Scuola Normale di Pisa)
Prof Jürgen Bohnemeyer (University of Buffalo) 
Prof Bernard Comrie (University of California Santa Barbara)
Prof Hamida Demirdache (University of Nantes/CNRS)
Prof Antonio Fábregas (University of Tromsø)
Prof Maria Lluïsa Hernanz (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Dr Angeliek van Hout (University of Groningen)
Dr Kwang-sup Kim (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
Prof Wolfgang Klein (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
Dr Sarah Liszka (University of Greenwich)
Ms Jinhong Liu (Guangzhou College of South China University of Technology)
Prof Lisa Matthewson (University British Columbia) 
Dr Anne Mucha (University of Postdam)
Dr Fernanda Pratas (University of Lisbon)
Prof Roumyana Slabakova (University of Southampton)
Prof Tim Stowell (University of California, Los Angeles)
Dr Hongyuan Sun (University of Picardie/University of Nantes)
Prof Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria (University of Basque Country)
Prof Susi Wurmbrand (University of Conneticut)
Prof Jan-Wouter Zwarts (University of Groningen)




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