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    Message 1: Theoretical and experimental perspectives on tense, aspect, modality and events

     Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:50:03 +0000
    From: amunn <amunnmsu.edu>
    Subject: Theoretical and experimental perspectives on tense, aspect, modality and events


    It's about time: Theoretical and experimental perspectives on tense, aspect, modality and events Short Title: It's about time

    Date: 18-JUL-03 - 19-JUL-03 Location: East Lansing, MI, United States of America Contact: Alan Munn Contact Email: timecogsci.msu.edu Meeting URL: http://cogsci.msu.edu/workshops/time

    Linguistic Sub-field: Syntax, Semantics, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Linguistic Theories, Language Acquisition, Cognitive Science

    Meeting Description:

    A Workshop to held July 18-19, 2003 at the LSA Linguistic Institute Michigan State University

    Invited Speakers

    Michael Walsh Dickey, Northwestern University Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh

    A particularly active area of research in current linguistic theory is the syntax and semantics of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Events. It often takes some time for theoretical advances to influence psycholinguistic work, in part because communication between linguists and psycholinguists is not always optimal. Results from formal work on Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Events seem especially likely to lead to significant experimental and computational work. For this reason, we have planned a 2 day workshop designed to bring together researchers from both linguis tics and psycholinguistics who are working on these topics, and we invite you to participate.

    For more information, please visit the Workshop website http://www.cogsci.msu.edu/workshops/time or send mail to timecogsci.msu.edu

    For more information about the LSA Linguistic Institute please visit the Institute website http://lsa2003.lin.msu.edu

    Workshop Organizers:

    Cristina Schmitt (Michigan State University) Alan Munn (Michigan State University) Fernanda Ferreira (Michigan State University)

    Registration information:

    Registration will be taken on-site. LSA Institute Participants: Students $15.00 Non-students: $20.00

    Non-LSA Participants Students $25.00 Non-students $30.00

    Schedule: Friday, July 18, 2003

    9:00-9:15 Introductory Remarks

    9:15-10:30 Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh Title TBA

    10:30-11:00 Coffee

    11:30-11:45 Luis Paris, SUNY Albany Mereological Constraints on Extended Arguments

    11:45-12:30 Marc Moffett, University of Wyoming Outline of a nonDavidsonian Event Semantics

    12:30-2:30 Lunch

    2:30-3:15 Erin L. O'Bryan, Raffaella Folli, Heidi Harley and Thomas Bever University of Arizona and Cambridge University Evidence for the Early Use of Telicity in Comprehension

    3:15-4:00 Laura Wagner, Harvard University The Influence of Conceptual Prototypes on Linguistic Judgments of Tense and Aspect

    4:00-4:30 Coffee

    4:30-5:15 Anna Maria DiSciullo, MRSC, Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al On the Asymmetry of Aspect Structure

    5:15-6:00 Maria Lekakou, Univ. College, London and UiL OTS, Utrecht The Interaction between Aspectual Morphology and Middle Formation Saturday, July 19, 2003

    9:15-10:30 Michael Walsh Dickey, Northwestern University Title TBA

    10:30-11:00 Coffee

    11:00-11:45 Asier Alcazar, University of Southern California Two Paradoxes in the Interpretation of Imperfective Aspect and the Progressive

    11:45-12:30 Stefan Engelberg, University of Wuppertal The Aspecto-temporal Properties of PP-internal Nominalized Infinitives

    12:30-2:30 Lunch

    2:30-3:15 Anita Mittwoch, Hebrew University, Jerusalem The English Perfect of Result: an inference that is neither truth-conditional nor cancellable

    3:15-4:00 Roumyana Pancheva, University of Southern California Four Perfects in One

    4:00-4:30 Coffee

    4:30-6:00 Round Table Discussion