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Presentación: Time Without Tense?

Typological and Theoretical Insights into Tenseless Languages

This talk examines how so-called “tenseless” languages, which lack obligatory tense morphology, nonetheless anchor events in time. Drawing on data from languages like Mandarin, Yúcatec Maya, and West Greenlandic, I propose a typology of strategies: aspect, modality, adverbials, pragmatic inference, and more unusual devices like nominal tense, that compensate for the absence of overt tense. Engaging with theoretical debates, I argue that no language is truly tenseless at the syntactic level; instead, all languages project a universal TP with a covert T head, with variation lying in how tense surfaces and interacts with aspect and modality.

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Día: 14.11.2025
Inicio: 16:15
Duración: 00:30
Sala: M2.31
Área: Theoretical Linguistics
Idioma: en

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