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Joust between Ana Arregui and Daniel Altshuler (27.11.2020)

Join us this Friday (27.11) at 14.15 for CASTLFish´s first ever Joust. The event has been arranged by Sergey Minor and Gillian Ramchand and  will occcur between Prof. Ana Arregui (UMass Amherst) and Prof. Daniel Altshuler (University of Oxford). The event will be held on zoom.
 
The topic is 

The Syntax and Semantics of Aspect.  

The two illustrious knights will be asked to address the question: 

What kinds of constraints are there on crosslinguistic variation in the domain of aspectual categories, and is this a matter or morphosyntax, semantics or both?  Or put another way, how is semantic variation reflected in the structural representation of aspectual categories?  

The format of the Joust is  as follows : 

Arregui: 20 minutes 

Altshuler: 20 minutes 

Arregui gets to pose question to Altshuler (10 min for questions and answers) 

Altshuler gets to pose question to Arregui (10 min for questions and answers) 

Herald Panel (Minor and Ramchand) get to pose questions to the speakers (15 min) 

Open Discussion (15 min) 

All are welcome!

Picture taken from the Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg; Public Domain

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