Compositionality in the domain of tense, mood and aspect. Workshop in honor of Henk Verkuyl

In October this year Cambridge University Press will publish The Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect, written by Henk Verkuyl (UiLOTS, Utrecht). The title of this book clearly alludes to the PhD defended in Utrecht on Friday 15 October 1971, called On the Compositional Nature of the Aspects. It was published in 1972 without substantial corrections. The fact that October 15 this year will fall on a Friday was such a nice coincidence that it was impossible to escape from the idea that the book could be presented on that very day in a celebratory setting of some sort, exactly fifty years after. This has been developed into the more concrete idea of a workshop with distinguished speakers working in the domain of tense, aspect and mood who could connect their contribution to topics broached in the new book. The book addresses both linguists and logicians, so we are happy that UiLOTS (Utrecht) and ILLC (Amsterdam) have joined forces in organizing this workshop.

Preliminary schedule:

13.00 – 13.30 Welcome
13.30 – 14.10 Eric Reuland (Utrecht University, UiLOTS)
14.10 – 14.50 Angeliek van Hout (University of Groningen, CLCG)
14.50 – 15.10 Tea break
15.10 – 15.50 Reinhard Muskens (University of Amsterdam, ILLC)
15.50 – 16.10 Manfred Krifka (Humboldt University of Berlin, ZAS-Berlin)
16.10 – 16.30 Break
16.30 – 17.00 Henk Verkuyl (Utrecht University, UiLOTS): final reflections

Participation is free, but we ask all participants to register. Registration will be open soon (https://events.illc.uva.nl/Workshops/Verkuyl2021/).