TAM 2026: Program

TimeActivity
9:30-10:00Informal get-together / coffee & snacks
10:00-10:30official welcome / conference opening
10:30-12:30Thematic Session I
10:30-11:00Georg Kaiser (Konstanz): On the grammticalization of personal pronouns in Romance. An empirical study of French (and Spanish)
11:00-11:30Verónica Böhm (Salzburg): Semantic Indeterminacy and the Grammaticalization of Modal and Evidential Functions in Romance TAM: Insights from Social Media
11:30-12:00Johanna Braumandl (Bamberg): The modal use of the Italian imperfetto
12:00-12:30Hans-Ingo Radatz (Bamberg): The Spanish simple future as a modal Phenix: how a new mood may be emerging from the ashes of a dying tense
12:30-14:00Joint lunch
14:00-15:30Thematic Session II
14:00-14:30Lukas Eibensteiner (Jena): Prototypicality matters! An Empirical Study on the Influence of (Non-)Prototypicality on Transfer in the Acquisition of Aspect in L3 Spanish
14:30-15:00Benjamin Peter (Hannover): Tense in Cognitive Linguistics: Theorisation and Analysis of Acadian French Data
15:00-15:30Tanja Prohl (Bamberg): A Frame-Based Representation of the Present Perfect Construction in Spanish
15:30-16:00Coffee break
16:00-17:30Thematic Session III
16:00-16:30Jakob Egetenmeyer (Köln): Prepast in Papiamentu compared to Spanish: Same discourse account despite less specific markers?
16:30-17:00Susana Rodríguez Rosique (Alicante): Morphological future in Spanish: A deictic compass at the TAMEM crossroads
17:00-17:30Albiona Islami (Bamberg): The periphrastic future in French
17:30-19:30Break (optional joint activity in Bamberg, e.g. a walk through the historic old town)
from 19:30Joint dinner