(Proposed) Workshop at SLE 2027: Remoteness Marking: What Is It, and What Is It For?

Time is central to the human experience, to human cognition, and to human languages. Many languages, though few major European ones, grammatically distinguish not only past, present, and future times, but also degrees of past or future time, as in Aghem’s hodiernal (today)–based system in (1). Submissions close 2026-11-05. Held 25 to 28 August 2027 in Košice, Slovakia. Fields: Anthropological Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Pragmatics; Semantics; Typology.