Conference Information

Full Title:	Aspect Across Languages: Divergence and Convergence

Location:	Perth, WA, Australia
Start Date:	05-Dec-2012 - 07-Dec-2012
Contact:	Andrea Schalley
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Meeting URL:	https://sites.google.com/site/als2012uwa/home/workshops/aspect
Meeting Description:	The level of complexity and importance of aspectual systems in languages, compounded by the diversity of approaches to representing aspect, make aspect an extremely interesting topic for discussion. In this workshop, we would like to engage in this discussion from a cross-linguistic perspective. Although many authors have thoroughly addressed and investigated issues surrounding aspect, there still remains a lack of uniformity in regard to the theoretical notion of aspect (Beavers, 2008, in press; Borer, 2005; Comrie, 1976; de Swart, 1998; Dowty, 1979; Filip, 2008; Klein, 1994; Krifka, 1998; Vendler, 1967, amongst others). Aspect can roughly be delimited as describing the speaker’s perspective on the internal organisation of an action, event or state, which not only covers temporal perspectives, but might also include characteristics such as progressive, habitual, repetition, momentary, bounded, perfective etc. (Bybee, Perkins, & Pagliuca, 1994; Dahl, 1985; Smith, 1997; Talmy, 2000; Verkuyl, 1993). The workshop is held as part of the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society (https://sites.google.com/site/als2012uwa/home). Program Committee: Helen Arnot, Griffith University, Australia John Beavers, University of Texas at Austin, USA Östen Dahl, University of Stockholm, Sweden Stefan Engelberg, Institute for the German Language (IDS) Mannheim, Germany Hana Filip, University of Düsseldorf, Germany Mark Harvey, University of Newcastle, Australia Beth Levin, Stanford University, USA Robert Mailhammer, University of Western Sydney, Australia Rachel Nordlinger, University of Melbourne, Australia Andrea Schalley, Griffith University, Australia Ruth Singer, University of Melbourne, Australia Workshop Organisers: Andrea Schalley Helen Arnot
Linguistic Subfield:	General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Semantics; Typology
LL Issue:	23.3840


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