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CHRONOS 15

Toulouse, Université Jean Jaurès

29-31 May, 2024

 

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.

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INVITED SPEAKERS

Daniel Altshuler is an Associate Professor of Semantics at the University of Oxford. He specializes in formal semantics and pragmatics. The theme of his research is context dependence with the aim of better understanding how compositional semantics interacts with discourse structure and discourse coherence. To that end, he has investigated the semantics and pragmatics of tense, aspect and temporal adverbials. He also has active interests in philosophy of language and philosophy of literature, including their intersections. This research explores how literary discourse motivates particular extensions of dynamic-semantic frameworks. In particular, he has explored the phenomena of imaginative resistance and narrative garden-path. He is the author of “Events, States and Times” (de Gruyter, 2016), co-author of “A Course in Semantics” (MIT Press, 2019) and “Coordination and the Syntax – Discourse Interface” (OUP, 2022).
James Bednall is a lecturer and early career researcher in linguistics at Charles Darwin University and an honorary lecturer at the Australian National University. His research and teaching interests focus around areas of morphosyntax, semantics and pragmatics, and their interfaces; language documentation and description (particularly of Australian Indigenous languages); semantic and structural typology; and community-led language revitalisation and maintenance practices. James’ research builds on over a decade of collaborative work with First Nations language communities in Mid-West Western Australia and east Arnhem Land. He works particularly with the Badimia community in Mid-West Western Australia, and with Warnumamalya communities on the Groote Eylandt archipelago in the Northern Territory.
Pier Marco Bertinetto completed his studies in Torino. He taught History of the Italian Language at the University of Torino (1975-1979) and subsequently General Linguistics, first at the University of Roma I (1980) and then at Scuola Normale Superiore (1981-2017), where he directed the Laboratorio di Linguistica “Giovanni Nencioni”. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Italian Journal of Linguistics (1989-), member of Academia Europaea, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia (Finnish Accademy of Sciences), Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, and president pro-tempore of Societas Linguistica Europaea. He directed over 40 PhD dissertations and has been an external reviewer in over 30 ones in other academic institutions, both in Italy and abroad. He organized over 20 international conferences. His main research areas are tense-aspect semantics, typological linguistics, experimental phonetics-phonology and morphology.
Dr. Lera Boroditsky is a Professor of Cognitive Science at UC San Diego. She previously served on the faculty at MIT and at Stanford and as editor in chief of Frontiers in Cultural Psychology. Her research is on the relationships between mind, world and language (or how humans get so smart). Her TED talk on how language shapes thinking has been viewed more than 22 million times. Boroditsky has been named one of 25 visionaries changing the world by the Utne Reader, and is also a Searle Scholar, a McDonnell scholar, recipient of an NSF Career award and an APA Distinguished Scientist lecturer. She once used the Indonesian exclusive "we" correctly before breakfast and was proud of herself about it all day.

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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