LINGUIST List 12.2536

Thu Oct 11 2001

Confs: Aspect in Utrecht, the Netherlands

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PERSPECTIVES ON ASPECT
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS
(Netherlands)
December 12 - 14 2001

The Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS is hosting an international
conference on aspect. The aim of the conference is to offer a
retrospective view on the past thirty years of research on aspectuality
and temporality as well as develop perspectives on the future
development of the field.
The conference will revolve around three themes, distributed over three
days: Formal theory formation, New theoretical insights and Typological
variation.

INVITED SPEAKERS:
David Dowty, Manfred Krifka, Mark Moens and Mark Steedman, �sten Dahl,
Emmon Bach, Alice ter Meulen, Hana Filip, Chris Pi��n and Gillian
Ramchand.

FORUM DISCUSSANTS:
Hans Kamp and Barbara Partee.

In addition to the invited speakers and two discussion fora there are 12
presentations by selected speakers and two poster sessions with some 25
posters.

The program, further information & preregistration form are available
on:
http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/conferences/Perspectives_on_Aspect/P_o_A_index.html

For other questions, contact aspectlet.uu.nl.

ORGANIZERS:
Angeliek van Hout, Anna M?ynarcyck, Henri�tte de Swart, Henk Verkuyl.