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:
Pavel Grashchenkov (Institute of Oriental Studies)
Emergence of verbal categories in Turkic
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




