V-NYI #12 coming this summer! June 24-July 10, 2026

Ling M: Non-canonical tense: Tenselessness, narrative tense, and evidential tense (advanced)

Emily Knick (University of California, Santa Cruz) Roumyana Pancheva (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Block 3
Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20 pm (NY)

(7:00-8:20 pm, Kyiv/St. P)

The seminar will explore some lesser-studied topics in temporal semantics. We will ask whether tense is universal, how tense is used in narratives, and how tense interacts with evidentiality.