Symposium: Italy, June 2007 Nouns cross-linguistically

[Giuliana Fiorentino]

The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany)
and the University of Molise, (Italy), are jointly organizing a Symposium on



Nouns Cross-linguistically



to be held at Campobasso, University of Molise, June, 22-23, 2007.



The focus of the Symposium is on the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of
nouns, nominalizations and other strategies that are used by languages in
order to 'name' things and events. Our aim is to adopt a broad and
interdisciplinary approach to this topic.



List of participants:

  a.. Bernard Comrie,  Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Leipzig
Nominalizations between verbs and nouns

  a.. Giuliana Fiorentino,  University of Molise
Nouns, nominalizations and complex NP between speech and writing: a
syntactic approach

  a.. Livio Gaeta,  University of Naples, Federico II
Action nouns: at a cross-road of morphology, syntax and semantics

  a.. David Gil,  Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Leipzig
Nouns May Belong to Different Syntactic Categories in Different Languages

  a.. Martin Haspelmath,  Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Leipzig
Substantivizations cross-linguistically

  a.. John Hawkins,  University of Cambridge
Nouns and Noun Phrases:  Grammatical Variation and Language processing

  a.. Kees Hengeveld,  University of Amsterdam
Non-prototypical noun phrases

  a.. Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm,  University of Stockholm
Proper-name compounds: meanings and uses

  a.. Romano Lazzeroni,  University of Pisa
Title to be announced

  a.. Christian Lehmann,  University of Erfurt
Nominal Concepts

  a.. Andrej Malchukov,  Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Leipzig
Constraining nominalization: functional and structural factors in
interaction

  a.. Johanna Mattissen,  University of Cologne
Morphological Complexity in Nouns

  a.. Frans Plank,  University of Konstanz
About nameworthiness

  a.. Jan Rijkhoff,  University of Aarhus
Directionality in the grammaticalization of noun modifiers

  a.. Frank Seifart,  University of Bochum
Shape-based noun classes in Miraña (North West Amazon)



For further information, consult the following websites:

http://serviziweb.unimol.it/pls/unimol/consultazione.mostra_pagina?id_pagina=2585



and soon:

http://www.eva.mpg.de/english/events.htm





Organizers:

Bernard Comrie

comrie at eva.mpg.de



Giuliana Fiorentino

giuliana.fiorentino at unimol.it