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CHRONOS is a series of international conferences dedicated to current research on the semantics and pragmatics of tense, aspect, actionality, and modality/evidentiality and also their morphology and syntax. The CHRONOS conferences welcome presentations from scholars who conduct linguistic research on diverse languages from different perspectives and within varied theoretical frameworks. PhD students are most welcome to submit their papers.
Previous CHRONOS editions took place in Dunkerque (1995), Bruxelles (1997), Valenciennes (1998), Nice (2000), Groningen (2002), Geneva (2004), Anvers (2006), Austin (2008), Paris (2009), Birmingham (2011), Pisa (2014), Caen (2016) and Neuchâtel (2018). The 15th edition of CHRONOS will be held in Toulouse, at the Université Jean Jaurès, Maison de la Recherche 2, from 29th to 31st May 2024. Presentations will be delivered in English or French.
CHRONOS 15 aims to be a green and sustainable conference.
INVITED SPEAKERS
James Bednall (Charles Darwin University, Australia): Topics in aspectuo-temporal expression in Anindilyakwa (video-recording + abstract)
Janice Carruthers is Professor of French Linguistics at Queen's and Dean of Research in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. She took her BA in Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge University (St Catharine’s College), where she subsequently took an MPhil in Linguistics, followed by a PhD in French Linguistics under the supervision of Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett. She was Head of the School of Modern Languages (2011-2016) and Priority Area Leadership Fellow in Modern Languages with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2017-2021). Her main research interests are the linguistic structure of oral narrative, language and identity in France, languages education in the UK/Ireland, corpus linguistics, oral genres, sociolinguistic variation and change in French.
Henriëtte de Swart is professor of French linguistics and semantics at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on cross-linguistic semantics, especially in tense and aspect, area of nominals and negation. She published journal articles and books/book chapters on tense and aspect, negation, bare nominals and indefinites, as well as an introductory textbook in semantics (CSLI Publications, 1998). She also investigated the role of semantics in language evolution, and was closely involved in the development of bidirectional optimality theory. She led with Francis Corblin a collaborative network of semanticists in France and the Netherlands, which resulted in the Handbook of French Semantics (CSLI Publications, 2004). She was an associate editor of Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (2015-2018), the director of the national graduate school in linguistics and the director of the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics. In 2013, she was elected as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. More recently, she has developed a new methodology (known as Translation Mining) for comparative semantic analysis based on parallel corpora. Initial results, focusing on verb tenses in context, have been reported in articles published in Journal of Linguistics, Isogloss, Languages in Contrast and SALT. Her presentation at Chronos will focus on this line of research.
SPONSORS
- Cognition, Langues, Langage et Ergonomie (CLLE)
- Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT)
- CNRS
- Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès
CONTACT: chronos15@sciencesconf.org
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