Program

Monday December 10, 2018 – Room 6303
9:00 9:30 Registration & welcome
9:30 10:30 Invited speaker: Roumyana Pancheva (University of Southern California) Aspect in the historical present
10:30 11:10 Dennis Wegner (University of Kassel/ University of Wuppertal) ‘Weak’ grammatical aspect: At the interface of aspect and event structure
11:10 11:40 Coffee break
11:40 12:20 Julie Goncharov & Monica A. Irimia (Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Georg-August University of Göttingen & University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) Counterfactuality and imperfect
12:20 13:00 Ruoying Zhao (University College London) Towards A Unified Analysis of the Present Perfect
13:00 15:00 Lunch break
15:00 15:40 Livia Sommer (Humboldt-Universität Berlin) Evidence from compositional aspect for the modeling of psych verbs
15:40 16:20 Katherine Fraser (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU) Progressive posture
16:20 16:50 Coffee break
16:50 17:30 Ahmet Bilal Özdemir (Leipzig University) Rethinking the Turkish aspect
17:30 18:10 Betül Erbasi (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA) Matrix verb type and the availability of aspectual structure
19:00 Conference dinner
Tuesday December 11, 2018 – Room 6303
9:30 10:30 Gillian Ramchand (The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø) Pseudointensionality and the English Progressive
10:30 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 11:40 Malka Rappaport Hovav (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Scalar structure as an aspectual property of state roots
11:40 12:20 María J. Arche & Rafael Marín (University of Greenwich/CNRS & Université de Lille) Bleached aspect
12:20 14:20 Lunch break
14:20 15:00 Sebastìa Salvà i Puig (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Past participle agreement in Majorcan Catalan: The relevance of inner aspect
15:00 15:40 Éva Kardos & Imola-Ágnes Farkas (University of Debrecen &
Babeș-Bolyai University)
The Syntax of Inner Aspect in Hungarian
15:40 16:10 Coffee break
16:10 17:10 Invited speaker: Berit Gehrke (Humboldt Universität Berlin) Russian imperfective past passive participles (based on joined work with Olga Borik)