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EVENT                                                                               Thursday 5^th October

9:00-9:45

Registration                                                             

9:45-10:00

Welcome and presentation

10--11

Jan-Wouter Zwart, University of Groningen

Postsyntactic morphology and the syntax of verb clusters

11-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-12:10

Hazel Pearson, Queen Mary University of London

Revisiting Tense and Aspect in English Infinitives

12:10-12:50

Jerneja Kavcic, University of Ljubljana

The Tense of Complement Infinitives in Ancient Greek

12:50-15:00

Lunch

15:00-15:40

Vanessa Köbke López, University of Lisbon 

Parasitic Temporal Morphology: The case of the Gerúndio Composto in Portuguese 

15:40-16:15

Rosa Junia Garcia-Barragan Cordova, Autonomous Metropolitan University of Mexico

On Cross-Categorical Determiners Resolving the Tense-Mood Interpretation of the Spanish Subjunctive

16:15-17:00

Coffee break & poster session

Ying-Ju Chang, University of York

Tense marking in Taiwanese Mandarin

Pablo Rico, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Infinitive licensing through A’-movemnet: wh-elements vs. Foci

Neda Todorovic, University of British Columbia

What is (Im)possible when Tense is not there?

17:00-18:00

Tim Stowell, University of California Los Angeles

What Counts as a Tense: Nonfinite Past

18:00

Wine reception

19:30-

Informal conference dinner –Venue TBC

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EVENT                                                                            Friday 6^th October

9:30-10:30

Lisa Matthewson, University of British Columbia

Finding tenses where we don’t expect them                                                            

10:30-10:50

Coffee break

10:50-11:30

Hamida Demirdache & Hongyuan Sun, University of Nantes 

Constraints on embedded time reference in Mandarin: zero vs. overt aspect

11:30-12:10

Sherry Yong Chen and Matthew Husband, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Oxford

Non-future tense in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from contradictory ‘forward lifetime effects’

12:10-12:50

Fernanda Pratas, University of Lisbon

How much Tense is needed? The mixed response from Capeverdean

12:50-14:30

Lunch

14:30-15:10

Callum Hackett, Newcastle University

Universals of INFL: Challenges from Maybrat

15:10-15:50

Jürgen Bohnemeyer, University at Buffalo

Reality check: future time reference in tenseless languages

15:50-16:15

Coffee break

16:15-17:15

Wolfgang Klein, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Why Tense?

17:15-18:00

Open table and final discussion