Parallel Workshop on Tense, Aspect and Modaity, CIL 18, Korea July 2008

[Van der Auwera Johan]

Parallel Session at the 

18th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF LINGUISTS (CIL 18)

July 21-26 2008, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 

TENSE, ASPECT AND MODALITY

 

Organizer: Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

 

The study of tense, aspect and modality (and mood) remains an important field of linguistics, not least also because of our increased knowledge of the variety found in the world's languages (see e.g. the World Atlas of Language Structures, ed. by M. Haspelmath et al, Oxford University Press, 2005). 

 

Submissions are invited for twenty minute talks (15 minutes for presentation plus 5 minutes for questions), in either English or French, on any topic relating to the general domain of tense, aspect, modality, and mood. Of particular interest will be research that takes one or more of the following perspectives:

 

- the synchronic relation between the three (or four) domains: e.g., do choices in one demain (e.g. modality) restrict the choices in another one (e.g. aspect)? what is the relation between modality (mininally understood as the study of necessity and possibility and maximally also including volition and evidentially) and mood (distinctions such as indicative vs. subjunctive)? what is the relation between the concept of irrealis and those of mood and modality?

 

- the diachronic relations between the domains: e.g., how do aspect systems develop into tense systems? how does a tense acquire a modal meaning? 

 

- the cross-linguistic study of tense of tense, aspect, modality and mood, either from a global point of view or a more restricted one (language family or linguistic area)

 

Preference is given to presentations that will achieve a cross-theoretical understanding.

 

Important dates:

 

Deadline for Abstract Submission: May 31, 2007

Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: August 31, 2007

 

Submission of Abstracts:

 

A two-page abstract including everything should be sent electronically to both cil18 at cil18.org <mailto:cil18 at cil18.org>  and johan.vanderauwera at ua.ac.be <mailto:johan.vanderauwera at ua.ac.be> . Special characters should be in UNICODE. An MS Word and/or PDF file is strongly preferred.

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