36.3174, Confs: Workshop on Tense and Aspect in Analytic Forms (Spain)

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Subject: 36.3174, Confs: Workshop on Tense and Aspect in Analytic Forms (Spain)

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Date: 20-Oct-2025
From: Aikaterini Thomopoulou [aikaterini.thomopoulou at upf.edu]
Subject: Workshop on Tense and Aspect in Analytic Forms


Workshop on Tense and Aspect in Analytic Forms
Short Title: TAAF Workshop

Date: 28-May-2026 - 29-May-2026
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Contact Email: taafworkshop.upf at gmail.com
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/taafworkshop-upf/home-page

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax; Typology

Submission Deadline: 20-Jan-2026

Meeting description:
Tense and Aspect are fundamental categories in the architecture of
grammar. Both situate eventualities in time, but they do so in
different ways: tense anchors the time of the event deictically to the
time of the utterance, yielding present, past, or future distinctions,
either directly or through the mediation of a reference time (Comrie
1985, Bybee 1992). Aspect, on the other hand, refers to the internal
temporal constituency of the event, encoding distinctions such as
perfective, imperfective, and ingressive, among others (Vendler 1957,
Verkuyl 1972, Comrie 1976,  Dowty 1979, Smith 1991).
In addition to the inflectional encoding on the verb of Tense and
Aspect, well attested cross-linguistically, another common strategy
consists in analytic constructions, which combine auxiliary verbs,
particles, or other functional elements with lexical verbs. This
variation occurs not only cross-linguistically, but also
language-internally, where some Tense/Aspect distinctions may be
expressed synthetically and others analytically or periphrastically.
This workshop specifically aims to explore the morphosyntactic and
semantic properties of analytic Tense and Aspect constructions from
theoretical, descriptive, and comparative perspectives. In particular,
it seeks to offer new insights into the cross-linguistic expression of
temporal and aspectual meanings in analytic constructions, also
considering how Tense and Aspect are semantically and syntactically
intertwined with each other across languages.
We invite contributions on any area regarding the syntactic and
semantic dimensions of Tense and Aspect, including but not limited to
the following lines:
a) How are aspectual periphrases syntactically and semantically
encoded (resultatives, progressives…)?
b) What is the contribution of auxiliaries and light verbs in compound
tenses?
c) What are the semantic and/or morpho-syntactic factors regulating
the distribution of synthetic vs analytic Tense/Aspect constructions?
d) How do modality- or Mood-related interpretations of Tense arise
(e.g, “fake/repurposed tenses” in counterfactuals)?
e) What are the semantic/pragmatic implications of super-compound
tenses?
Abstracts:
We invite submissions for 20-minute talks (+10min discussion) in
English. Abstracts should not be longer than two pages, including
examples and references (Times New Roman 12 pt, single space, 2,4 cm
margins). Please submit your abstract in a pdf-format via EasyAbs:
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/TAAF/ until January 20,
2026. Abstracts have to be anonymous.
Invited Speakers:
Hamida Demirdache (Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (LLING) UMR
6310 CNRS/Université de Nantes)
Hadil​​ Karawani (University of Konstanz)



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