LINGUIST List 21.2662 Mon Jun 21 2010 Confs: Language Acquisition, Syntax, Typology/Portugal Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Alexandra Fiéis, Workshop on Tense and Aspect in Generative Grammar Message 1: Workshop on Tense and Aspect in Generative Grammar Date: 21-Jun-2010 From: Alexandra Fiéis <afieisfcsh.unl.pt> Subject: Workshop on Tense and Aspect in Generative Grammar E-mail this message to a friend Workshop on Tense and Aspect in Generative Grammar Short Title: WTA 2010 Date: 01-Jul-2010 - 02-Jul-2010 Location: Lisboa, Portugal Contact: Alexandra Fiéis Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/linguistica/wta2010 Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Syntax; Typology Meeting Description: I Workshop on Tense and Aspect in Generative Grammar. Acquisition and Typology. Invited Speakers: Jacqueline Guéron (Université Paris III) Angeliek van Hout (University of Groningen) We are pleased to announce that the programme for the Workshop on Tense and Aspect in Generative Grammar (WTA2010), to be held in Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Lisbon, Portugal, from 1 to 2 July, has now been finalised. The programme is given below, and can also be found on our website at: http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/linguistica/wta2010/programme.html Registration is now open. Further details are given on our website (http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/linguistica/wta2010/), along with practical information. WTA 2010 Programme: Thursday, 1 July 9.00-9.45: Registration 9.45-10.00: Welcoming remarks 10.00-10.30: Ciro Greco (University of Milan) Can tenses be pure indexicals in complement clauses? 10.30-11.00: Ana Maria Brito (Universidade do Porto) Tense in two types of nominalization of the infinitive in Portuguese 11.00-11.30: Coffee break 11.30-12.00: Hadil Karawani & Hedde Zeijlstra (University of Amsterdam) The semantic contribution of past tense morphology in Palestinian 12.00-12.30: Nasser Al-Horais (Qassim University) The interaction of negation with tense in Standard Arabic 12.30-14.30: Lunch break 14.30-15.00: Maria J. Arche (University of Greenwich) Aspect matters in sentential temporal interpretation 15.00-15.30: Jonathan MacDonald (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Syntax and the aspectual influence of the noun 15.30-16.00: Fuyo Osawa (Hosei University) Tense and Aspect: Parallelism between Ontogeny and Phylogeny 16.00-16.30: Coffee break 16.30-17.00: Georgia Fotiadou (Lancaster University) & Maria Papastathi (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) The interplay of event structure and aspect in the modal interpretation of anticausative verbs: Evidence from Greek corpora 17.00-17.30: Patrícia de Araujo Rodrigues (Universidade Estadual de Londrina) Aspect in non-finite complements of perception verbs 17.30-18.30: Invited speaker Jacquelin Guéron (Université Paris 3) On the spatio-temporal unity of the sentence 20.00: Dinner Friday, 2 July 10.00-10.30: Trang Phan (University of Sheffield) The realization of Inner Aspect in Vietnamese 10.30-11.00: Marleen van de Vate (Universitetet i Tromsø) To 'bi' or no to 'bi': A pronominal analysis for past tense in Saamáka 11.00-11.30: Coffee break 11.30-12.00: Sviatlana Karpava & Kleanthes K. Grohmann (University of Cyprus) Embedded aspect in L2 acquisition: Evidence from L1-Russian learners of Greek 12.00-12.30: Maria J. Arche (University of Greenwich), Laura Dominguez (University of Southampton) and Florence Myles (Newcastle University) The L2 acquisition of the semantics and morphology of Aspect: a study of the acquisition of the Spanish imperfect-preterit contrast by native speakers of English 12.30-14.30: Lunch break 14.30-15.00: Maria Papakonstantinou, Despoina Papadopoulou & Ianthi Maria Tsimpli (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) Temporal Connectives, Aspect and (Non-)Temporal Interpretation in Greek: Evidence from psycholinguistics 15.00-15.30: Marit Westergaard & Kristine Bentzen (CASTL, University of Tromsø) Finiteness and word order in the acquisition of English and Norwegian wh- questions 15.30-16.00: Sviatlana Karpava (University of Cyprus) L2 Acquisition of English Present Perfect Interpretations 16.00-16.30: Coffee break 16.30-17.30: Invited speaker Angeliek van Hout (University of Groningen) Learning to understand aspect across languages Alternates: I-hao Woo (Boston University) Aspectual Coercion and Imperfectivity in Mandarin Chinese Raquel Oliveira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Aspect in infinitive complement clauses subcategorized by perception verbs Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 21-Jun-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.