37.1597, Confs: Workshop on Tense and Aspect in Analytic Forms (Spain)

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Date: 27-Apr-2026
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

Program:
Thursday - May 28, 2026
09:00–09:30: Registration
09:30-09:45: Opening remarks
09:45–11:00: Invited speaker: Hadil Karawani [Past and Perfect:
Modality without modals]
11:00–11:30: Coffee break
11:30–12:10: Yusuke Kanazawa [Two types of analytic future and deontic
modality in Old Sardinian]
12:10–12:50: Zahra Mirrazi [Existence Presupposition in Counterfactual
conditionals: Tense or Aspect]
12:50–14:20: Lunch break
14:20–15:00: Jéssica Mendes [On the unavailability of (some)
future-of-past readings]
15:00–15:40: Silvia Curti, Desiré Carioti, Angeliek van Hout & Maria
Teresa Guasti [A: ‘The boy didn’t eat the sandwich.’ B: ‘What do you
mean? Not even a bite or…?’]
15:40–16:10: Coffee break
16:10–16:50: Petr Kusily [Reconceptualizing the tense-aspect
interaction: evidence from cessation inferences]
16:50–17:30: Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Alberto Frasson, Tanya
Ivanova-Sullivan [Auxiliary Omission in Evidential Perfects in
Bulgarian and Latvian]
20:00–22:30: Workshop dinner
Friday - May 29, 2026
09:30–10:00: Registration
10:00–10:40: Paolo Lorusso [Aspectual Interpretations and Finite
Complementation in Apulian Varieties]
10:40–11:20: Veronica Girolami; Jelena Živojinović [Should I Stay or
Should I Go? Aspectual Periphrases in Ascolano]
11:20–11:50: Coffee break
11:50–12:30: Alberto Frasson, Antonina Mocniak, Dorota
Klimek-Jankowska [Lose a feature but keep your head: Tense in the Old
Polish perfect]
12:30–13:10: Setayesh Dashti [Less than have, more than be:
have-progressive and be-perfect in Persian]
13:10–14:40: Lunch break
14:40–15:20: Emanuela Li Destri [Andare a + infinitive: an evolving
aspectual periphrasis in contemporary Italian]
15:20–16:00: Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal [Role Exhaustion and Unique Path
Constraint in the complex predication logic  of multiply iterated
resultatives and low depictives]
16:00–16:30: Coffee break
16:30–17:45: Invited speaker: Hamida Demirdache [Analytic Tense as
Subordination: Evidence from Moroccan Arabic (Joint work with Hafida
Iguir)]
17:45-18:00: Closing remarks
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?
References:
Comrie, Bernard. 1985. Tense. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Comrie, Bernard. 1976. Aspect. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dowty, David. 1979. Word Meaning and Montague Grammar. The Semantics
of Verbs and Times in Generative Semantics and in Montague’s PTQ.
Synthese Language Library, Vol. 7. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing
Company.
Smith, Carlota. 1991.The Parameter of Aspect. Springer Dordrecht.
Vendler, Zeno. 1957. Verbs and times. Philosophical Review. 66.
143-160.
Verkuyl, Henk J. 1972. On the Compositional Nature of the Aspects.
FLSS, Vol. 15. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company.
Invited Speakers:
Hamida Demirdache (Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (LLING) UMR
6310 CNRS/Université de Nantes)
Hadil​​ Karawani (University of Konstanz)
Submission Instructions:
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). Abstracts have to be anonymous.



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