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Cambridge Language Sciences

Interdisciplinary Research Centre
 

To register contact the workshop organizer, Kasia M. Jaszczolt, on kmj21@cam.ac.uk, by 6 April 2021.

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Programme  

Times are given in BST (GMT + 1 hour) 

Friday 9 April 

14.00-14.40 Tense and emotion 

 Simon Prosser, University of St Andrews 

14.40-15.20 “Time stays, we go”: An exploration into the poetics of time 

Anna Piata, Université de Neuchâtel 

15.20-15.30 break 

15.30-16.10 Perceiving direction in directionless time 

Matt Farr, University of Cambridge 

16.10-16.50 The 2D past 

 Graeme A. Forbes, University of Kent 

16.50-17.00 break 

17.00-17.40 Temporal remoteness in a tenseless language 

 Jürgen Bohnemeyer, University at Buffalo 

Saturday 10 April 

14.00-14.40 Avertive/frustrative markers in Australian languages: Blurring the boundaries between  temporal and modal meanings 

Patrick Caudal, CNRS & Université Paris-Diderot 

14.40-15.20 Temporal transparency and the flow of time 

Giuliano Torrengo, University of Milan/Autonomous University of Barcelona 

15.20-15.30 break 

15.30-16.10 Does human time really flow? Metaindexicality, metarepresentation, and basic concepts

Kasia M. Jaszczolt, University of Cambridge 

16.10-16.50 Temporal modelling and Ontological Hindsight Bias 

Joshua Mozersky, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario 

16.50-17.00 break

17.00-17.40 Temporal semantics and grammar in Pirahã 

 Daniel L. Everett, Bentley University 

c. 17.45-18.15 General discussion and informal close  

Date: 
Friday, 9 April, 2021 - 14:00 to Saturday, 10 April, 2021 - 18:15
Event location: 
Online

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