30.4140, Confs: Cog Sci, Gen Ling, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 04:48:05
From: Giuliano Armenante [giuliano.armenante at uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: Processing Tense

 
Processing Tense 

Date: 14-Nov-2019 - 15-Nov-2019 
Location: Tübingen, Germany 
Contact: Giuliano Armenante 
Contact Email: processingtense at sfb833.uni-tuebingen.de 
Meeting URL: http://processingtense2019.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The workshop “Processing Tense” is organized by Project B1 of the SFB 833 “The
Construction of Meaning” and will be held in Tübingen, Germany, on November
14-15, 2019.
The workshop provides a forum for researchers examining different aspects of
the processing of temporal information and is intended to combine research on
tense semantics using psycho- or neurolinguistic methods. We are pleased to
invite abstracts for the workshop on any topic relevant to processing-related
aspects of tense semantics. Submission is open until July 12, 2019.

Invited Speakers:

Ryan Bochnak (University of Manchester)
Lyn Frazier (UMass Amherst)
Isabella Fritz (NTNU, Trondheim)
Silvia Gennari (University of York)
Anne Mucha (IDS Mannheim)
Jacopo Romoli (Ulster University)

Description:

Reference to time is an extremely common and basic concept of human cognition.
Accordingly, the understanding of tense in natural language has been a primary
objective of linguistic, philosophical, and psychological research for a long
time (e.g. Prior, 1967; Klein, 2009; Reichenbach, 1947).
>From a linguistic view, tense has both been argued to denote referential
properties (Enç, 1986; Kratzer, 1998) as well as to induce existential
quantification (Ogihara, 1995; Kusumoto, 1999). Thus, the optimal way to
capture tense meaning is yet to be determined. One phenomenon that has
featured prominently in this debate is sequence of tense, correlating with a
semantically vacuous past in embedded contexts. This apparent lack of a
one-to-one correspondence between tense morphology and tense meaning
constitutes a challenge to the view that one form must be mapped to one
meaning, and it also constitutes an interesting locus of cross-linguistic
variation (Grønn & von Stechow, 2010; Ogihara & Sharvit, 2012). From a
psycholinguistic perspective, the processing of tense has been primarily
examined in its relation to aspectual properties, and with a focus on the
on-line processing of morphological mismatches (but see Baggio, 2004 and
Dickey, 2000, for exceptions). However, relatively little is still known about
the processing of more complex temporal phenomena, such as embedded tenses or
the processing of temporal mismatches that cannot be attributed to morphology.

The workshop aims at providing a forum for researchers who combine research on
tense semantics with empirical insights from psycho- and neurolinguistic
studies or from linguistic fieldwork. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:

- Pronominal and quantificational approaches towards tense
- Cross-linguistic variation of the category of tense
- Representation and processing of tense in embedded contexts
- Interaction with other grammatical categories such as aspect, mood and voice
- The temporal interpretation of noun phrases and other linguistic expressions
encoding temporal information
 






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