Tense and Modality

Jacqueline GUERON gueron at IDF.EXT.JUSSIEU.FR
Mon Nov 28 11:29:49 UTC 2005


Dear colleagues/Chers collègues,,
   Would you be kind enough to forward this attachment to your subscribers instead of the attachment I sent you ten minutes ago? That one said "preliminary program" instead of "definitive program".    
   Sorry for the trouble, and thanks.
    Jacqueline Guéron
    (U. Paris 3)

TIME AND MODALITY
An international Round Table on Tense, Mood, and Modality

The Round Table is sponsored by the Jeune Equipe "Syntaxe anglaise et
syntaxe comparative", Université Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle, the
Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, CNRS-Université Paris 7, and the
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). It will be held on
Thursday through Saturday, December 8th to 10th 2005, at the Université
Paris 7 (Campus Jussieu) and the Université Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle.

The Round Table is open and free to everyone. For information,
please check the Website for the workshop: 
http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/TM/

Contact: Jacqueline Guéron <gueron at idf.ext.jussieu.fr>,
Jacqueline Lecarme <lecarme at llf.cnrs.fr> 

DEFINITIVE PROGRAM
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Thursday, December 8: (Campus Jussieu, Amphi 42)
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2.30 pm Welcome
3.00 pm Introduction 

3.15-4.00 James Higginbotham (University of Southern California)
          Sequence of Tense Extended

4.00-4.45 Philippe Schlenker (UCLA & Institut Jean-Nicod)
          On the subjunctive

4.45-5.00 Pause

5.00-5.45 Carlota Smith (University of Texas at Austin)
          Time With and Without Tense

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Friday, December 9: (Campus Jussieu, Amphi 42)
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9.00-9.45 Gregory N. Carlson (University of Rochester)
          A denotational semantics for generic sentences

9.45-10.30 Brenda Laca (Université Paris 8)
           Aspect and the interpretation of modal verbs in Spanish

10.30-11.00 Pause

11.00-11.45 Ileana Comorovski (Université Nancy 2)
            Epistemic indefinites in French and Romanian: a diachronic perspective

11.45-12.30 Karen Zagona (University of Washington)
            Epistemic modals and assertion

       (Grand Amphi, 5 rue de l'École de Médecine)

2.30-3.15 Roumyana Pancheva (University of Southern California)
          Tense and Evidentiality

3.15-4.00 Jacqueline Lecarme (LLF, CNRS-Université Paris 7)
          Tense and Modality in Nominals

4.00-4.30 Pause 

4.30-5.15 Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia) & Hotze Rullmann (University of Calgary)
          Modal Variability 

5.15-6.30 Jacqueline Guéron (Université Paris 3)
          On the temporal function of modal verbs

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Saturday, December 10: (Grand Amphi, 5 rue de l'École de Médecine)
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9.30-10.15 Sabine Iatridou (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
           Tense and Mood on a *particular* Modal

10.15-11.00 Bridget Copley (University of Southern California)
            Modal aspects and aspectual modals
                          
11.00-11.15 Pause

11.15-12.00 Hamida Demirdache (Université de Nantes/LLING EA3827) &
Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria (University of the Basque Country)
            The Syntax of Time Arguments: Covaluation, Binding and Scope

12.00-12.45 Timothy Stowell (University of California at Los Angeles)
             The English Konjunktiv II







Jacqueline GUERON



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