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Chronos 7

International conference on tense, aspect, mood, and modality

18 - 20 September 2006

University of Antwerp (Belgium)

Chronos is a series of biannual conferences dedicated to current research on the morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of markers of tense, aspect, mood, and modality. The conferences aim to bring together researchers working from different perspectives and in different theoretical frames.

Special topic: Tense and modality

Submissions addressing the relationships between temporal and nontemporal/modal values of tenses are especially encouraged. Submissions to the conference are not restricted to the special topic. We welcome proposals relating to any area in the linguistics of tense, aspect, mood, and modality.

Abstract submissions

Presentations will be delivered in English or French. The deadline for abstract submissions is January 8, 2006. Abstracts should be sent either to the following email address as an attachment:

or to this snail mail address on a separate page:

Walter De Mulder
University of Antwerp (CST)
Department of Linguistics
Rodestraat 14
2000 Antwerp
Belgium

The email message or accompanying cover letter should specify all contact information for the author(s), including their name, affiliation, university or home address, and email address, as well as the exact title of the submission.

The abstract should be anonymous and will be subject to a blind review. It should not exceed one page, Times 11, examples and references included. Accepted formats for electronic submissions are Word, PDF (Adobe Acrobat Reader, version 6), or rich text format (RTF). Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their proposal by February 28, 2006. A maximum of one individual and one co-authored paper is considered per author.

A second call for papers will provide more details about the organization of the conference. It will be distributed in late October.

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