17.3241, Confs: General Ling/Estonia

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LINGUIST List: Vol-17-3241. Tue Nov 07 2006. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 17.3241, Confs: General Ling/Estonia

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Date: 05-Nov-2006
From: Daniele Monticelli < daniel at ehi.ee >
Subject: Aspect in Languages and Theories: Similarities and Differences 

	
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Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:24:08
From: Daniele Monticelli < daniel at ehi.ee >
Subject: Aspect in Languages and Theories: Similarities and Differences 
 

Aspect in Languages and Theories: Similarities and Differences 

Date: 17-Nov-2006 - 18-Nov-2006 
Location: Tartu, Estonia 
Contact: Daniele Monticelli 
Contact Email: daniel at ehi.ee 
Meeting URL: http://www.fl.ut.ee/aspektikonverents 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The conference will approach the subject of aspectuality from three different
perspectives:

Contrastive approach: Does contrastive analysis identify functional
equivalencies between different ways in which aspect shows itself in different
languages? What remains and what changes? Or can aspectual phenomena rather be
explained in terms used for general language-specific qualities? 

The general theoretical framework: The first problem here has to do with the
definition of aspect. If it was to be linked with particular forms in which it
manifested itself, the theory would immediately become language-specific. In
broader semantic definitions, linguists often use concepts as 'primitives' which
call for explanation. What is a situation or an action or a process? A related
problem has to do with mixing, distinguishing and relating the concepts of
aspect and Aktionsart in theory. 

Aspect and definiteness: This could be the most experimental section of the
conference. So far, aspect and definiteness have been distinguished as qualities
of a verb and a noun respectively, but one could ask whether a more general
mechanism of definition does not come up in those and how their influence
defines the type of situation. What are the possible combinations of aspect and
definiteness? 

Aspect in languages and theories:
similarities and differences

L'aspect dans les langues et les théories:
similitude et differénces

17 - 18 November 2006 
Tartu University
17 et 18 Novembre 2006
Universite de Tartu
(Lossi 3-425, Tartu)

Friday, 17 November / Vendredi 17 novembre

9.30	           registration of the participants / accueil des participants

10.00 - 10.30 	   opening of the conference / ouverture du colloque

Moderator / Modérateur: Krista Vogelberg  

10.30	 - 11.00   Denis Paillard (University of Paris VII)
                   Une typologie de l'aspect est-elle possible ? Pour une 
                   théorie des opérations aspectuelles Is a typology of  
                   aspect possible? For a theory of aspectual operations

11.00 - 11.30  	   Östen Dahl (University of Stockholm)
                   An ecological semantics of tense and aspect

11.30 - 12.00	   Stefano Montes (University of Tartu, University of 
                   Palermo) For a semantics of aspect. A semiotic and
                   anthropological point of view

12.00 - 12.30	   discussion 

12.30 - 14.00	lunch / déjeuner

Moderator / Modérateur: Denis Paillard

14.00 - 14.40	   Marc Wilmet (University of Bruxelles)
                   Cent ans après? Agrell
                   A hundred years after? Agrell

14.40 - 15.10	   Pille Eslon (University of Tallinn)
                   Universaalne vs spetsiifiline
                   Universal vs specific

15.10 - 15.40	   Florinela Comanescu (University of Bucarest,  
                   University of Paris VII)
                   Du rôle de l'aspect dans le fondement linguistique de  
                   l'opposition affecté/effectué
                   About the role of the aspect in the linguistic 
                   substantiation of the affected/effected opposition

15.40 - 16.10	   Reili Argus (University of Tallinn)
                   Leksikaalse aspekti roll ajakategooria omandamisel 
                   The role of aspectuality in the acquisition of the
                   category of time

16.10 - 16.40	coffee break / pause

Moderator / Modérateur: Marc Wilmet

16.40 - 17.10	   Jukka Havu (University of Tampere)
                   Quelques observations sur l'actionnalité et l'aspect
                   en finnois et en espagnol
                   About actionality and aspect in Finnish and in Spanish

17.10 - 17.40	   Marri Amon (University of Tartu)
                   Aspekti väljendamine sünkroontõlkes: millist rolli  
                   võib mängida diskursuse spetsiifika? 
                   The expression of aspect in simultaneous  
                   interpretation: which role can play the specific  
                   constraints of this type of discourse?

17.40 - 18.10	   Ewa Gwiazdecka (University of Warsaw)
                   L'opération de l'achèvement en polonais et en 
                   français              
                   Operation of Achievement in Polish and French	

19.00              reception at Paabel / réception à Paabel (Ülikooli 17/19)

Saturday, 18 November / Samedi 18 novembre

Moderator / Modérateur: Renate Pajusalu

9.00 - 9.30 	   Merilin Miljan (University of Edinburgh)
                   On the (non-)relatedness of aspect and definiteness in
                   Estonian

9.30 - 10.00       Hannu Tommola (University of Tampere)
                   Aspect, actionality, Slavonic verbal aspect and
                   Finnish object case

10.00 - 10.30	   Helena Metslang (University of Tartu)
                   Quantity adverbials of direct object case in Estonian

10.30 - 11.00	   Anne Tamm (University of Florence)
                   Aspect and the Estonian partitive objects: a review of
                   arguments for analyzing  partitive NPs as instances of
incorporation

11.00 - 11.30	   coffee break / pause

Moderator / Modérateur: Stefano Montes

11.30 - 12.00	   Janika Päll (University of Tartu)
                   Translating Ancient Greek categories of time and aspect

12.00 - 12.30	   Martin Steinrück (University of Fribourg)
                   Aspects of Plato

12.30 - 14.00	lunch / déjeuner

Moderator / Modérateur: Östen Dahl

14.00 - 14.30	   Lavanya Sankaran (University of Cambridge)
                   Aspectual theory: Language specificity versus
                   universal properties - comparing English and Tamil

14.30 - 15.00 	   Junichi Toyota (University of Lund)  
                   Historical development as a key to understand the
                   aspectual distinction

15.00 - 15.30	   coffee break / pause

15.30 - 16.00	Galina A. Kalmykova (University of Ulyanovsk)
                Representation of Aspectuality in Causal Constructions:
                Russian vs German

16.00 - 16.30	Zsuzsanna Frigy (University of Veszprém)
                German and English functional equivalents of the 
                Hungarian verbal particle meg. A crosslinguistic 
                analysis  of aspectual meanings and forms

16.30 		discussion and conclusion / discussion et conclusion

20.00 		dinner / dîner

On the first day of the conference the working languages will be Estonian,
English and French with simultaneous translation from Estonian into French and
vice versa. On the second day of the conference the working language will be
English. 

Les langues de travail lors du premier jour du colloque (le 17 novembre) seront
le français, l'estonien et l'anglais. Une traduction simultanée
estonien-français et français-estonien sera assurée.
La langue de travail du deuxième jour du colloque (le 18 novembre) sera l'anglais. 

The participation to the conference is free of charge. 
A collected volume of papers from the conference will be published.

La participation au colloque est gratuite.
Les actes du colloque seront publiés.

Organisers: the French language section of the Department of Germanic and
Romance Philology of the University of Tartu with the support of target-financed
topic number SF0182568s03 and the Tallinn French Cultural Centre.

Organisation :
Section française du département de langues et littératures germaniques et
romanes de l'université de Tartu, avec le soutien de l'action n° SF0182568s03 de
la faculté des Lettres de l'université de Tartu et le soutien du Centre culturel
français à Tallinn.

For more information / Demande d'informations complémentaires:
Daniele Monticelli (daniel at ehi.ee) and Anu Treikelder (anu.treikelder at ut.ee)
Web page: http://www.fl.ut.ee/aspektikonverents





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