Call for papers: Strategies of Quantification, York UK, July 15-17 2004

Steve Harlow sjh1 at york.ac.uk
Thu Feb 5 11:21:19 UTC 2004


       Strategies of Quantification
            University of York
             July 15-17 2004

Invited Speakers

K. A. Jayaseelan (CIEFL, Hyderabad)
Edward L. Keenan (UCLA)
Angelika Kratzer (UMass, Amherst)
Lisa Matthewson  (University of British Columbia)
Mark Steedman    (University of Edinburgh)
Akira Watanabe   (University of Tokyo)

Call for Papers


Natural languages employ various strategies for the expression of
quantificational notions. Ever since the publication of Bach et al.
(eds)(1997) the crosslinguistic study of quantification has become a
central topic of investigation. The extent to which the different
strategies employed by various natural languages represent distinct
possibilities or, rather, they are special cases of a general strategy,
is a matter of controversy. For instance,  determiner quantifiers
heading their own projections, forming elements which can be analysed as
generalised quantifiers, are used in many Indo-European languages.  On
the other hand, languages such as Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, use
wh-words (indeterminate pronouns) with suffixes denoting a.o.
disjunction or conjunction.  This latter strategy extends to
A-quantifiers and covers quantifier, or quantifier-like, meanings like
polarity, free choice, arbitrariness and so on, though the finer
distinctions within this domain are not so clear. From a different
perspective, the standard assumption that natural language quantifiers
are invariably or primarily of type <<e,t>, t> has also recently been
challenged. The questions to be addressed in this conference include,
but are not limited to the following:

- The semantics of indeterminates and the quantifiers based on them
- The fine structure of polarity, free choice and arbitrariness
- Types of quantificational force and how they are related
- Quantification and the syntax-semantics interface
- Comparative approaches to quantification
- Formal issues in the theory of quantifiers (and how they relate to the
   crosslinguistic study of quantification)


Submission procedure

We invite papers from all theoretical perspectives. Abstracts for 45mn
talks (including discussion) should not exceed 2 pages,  using a font no
smaller than 11pt and with at least 1in margins on all sides.

Electronic submission is very highly encouraged.  Send your abstract as
an attachment to an email message to:

lang29 at york.ac.uk

The attachment must be in one of the following file formats: postscript
(ps), pdf, dvi, ascii, doc (if you really can't avoid it).  In the body
of the message include your Name, Affiliation, and Title of the paper.
If electronic submission is impossible, send 7 anonymous copies of your
abstract to:

Strategies of Quantification
Department of Language and Linguistic Science
University of York
Heslington - York YO10 5DD
England - UK

Important Dates

Submission Deadline:        March 15 2004
Acceptance Notification:     April 5 2004


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SJ Harlow      sjh1 at york dot ac dot uk       Head of Department
Department of Language & Linguistic Science,    University of York
Heslington, York YO1 5DD, UK
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