Tense and aspect: A basic introduction

Here is the site for the mini-course "Formal semantics of tense and aspect: A basic introduction" at the Arctic University of Norway (UiT) June 6–8 2018.

It consists of three parts:

  1. Events, aktionsart (telic or anti-telic), aspect ((im)perfective, progressive), times
  2. Times continued, tense, temporal adverbials (particularly positional ones)
  3. The perfect, complex tense, and the SOT (sequence-of-tense) parameter

Selected survey articles



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