Program

Venue: Rubens Auditorium, Palace of the Academies (KVAB), Hertogstraat/Rue Ducale 1, 1000 Brussels

		Thursday 6 February 2020
09:00	Astrid De Wit, Michael Meeuwis & Frank Brisard	Opening
09:30	Tom Güldemann	Time marking beyond tense and aspect with particular focus on Bantu
10:15	Coffee break
10:45	Thera Crane	Modal functions of (tense-)aspect markers in Bantu
11:30	Agnès Celle	The mirative extensions of motion verbs in non-canonical questions
12:15	Lunch break
13:45	Pier Marco Bertinetto	Stylistic functions of abrupt aspectual shifts: examples from modern Italian narrative texts
14:30	Adeline Patard	A counterfactual cycle: Evidence from the French imperfect
15:15	Coffee Break
15:45	Agata Kochańska	The control cycle and the perfective/imperfective contrast in Polish
16:30	Discussion (including a brief description of the main ideas of De Wit & Dickey)
17:15	Reception

		Friday 7 February 2020
08:30	Monique Flecken	Aspect and event comprehension
09:15	Aliyah Morgenstern, Christophe Parisse & Sophie de Pontonx	Children's development of time, modality and aspect: Constructing a world within language
10:00	Coffee break
10:30	Connie de Vos	Modality-specific and language-specific elements of sign language acquisition: Perfective aspect in Kata Kolok
11:15	Carol Madden	Differential focus in ongoing and completed events
12:00	Eitan Grossman & Malte Rosemeyer	Why do grammaticalization pathways recur? An experimental approach
12:45	Lunch break
13:45	Laura Michaelis	The English resultative present perfect: What is the Event Elaboration Constraint?
14:30	Martijn van der Klis, Bert Le Bruyn, Jos Tellings & Henriëtte de Swart	Tense use in discourse and dialogue: Prototypical and non-prototypical uses of the PERFECT
15:15	Coffee break
15:45	Discussion