18.2860, Confs: General Linguistics/Canada

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LINGUIST List: Vol-18-2860. Mon Oct 01 2007. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 18.2860, Confs: General Linguistics/Canada

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Date: 30-Sep-2007
From: Jason Brown < jcb at interchange.ubc.ca >
Subject: Workshop on Parts and Quantities

 

	
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Workshop on Parts and Quantities 

Date: 16-Nov-2007 - 16-Nov-2007 
Location: Vancouver, Canada 
Contact: Martina Wiltschko 
Contact Email: wmartina at interchange.ubc.ca 
Meeting URL: http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/mbarrie/pq.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Exploring cross-linguistic variation in the syntax and semantics of natural
language expressions that are used to refer to parts or quantities. 

Workshop Workshop on Parts and Quantities
University of British Columbia
November 16, 2007: Buchanan Penthouse

Program

8:30-9:00 	
Registration

9:00-9:15	
Opening remarks

9:15-10:00	
Ileana Paul (Invited speaker) 
University of Western Ontario
Quantification inside and outside the nominal domain in Malagasy

10:00-10:30	
Huib Kranendonk
Utrecht University/UiL OTS
Universal Operators in the DP: a cross-dialectal inquiry

10:30-11.00	
Niina Zhang
National Chung Cheng University	
Expressions for exhaustivity

11.00-11:30	
Coffee break

11:30-12:00	
Etleva Vocaj
Université du Québec à Montréal	
Le nombre des noms 'nus' en albanais et leur référence

12:00-12:30	
Jason Brown
University of British Columbia	
Doubled plurals and the syntax of words in Gitksan

12:30-1:00	
Michael Barrie
University of British Columbia	
A Microparametric approach to number

1.00-2.15	
Lunch

2:15-3:00	
Eric Mathieu (Invited speaker)
University of Ottawa	
Is there a count/mass distinction in Ojibwe

3:00-3:30	
Andrea Wilhelm
University of Victoria	
The verbal expression of nominal quantities

3:30-4:00	
Gillian Ramchand
University of Tromsö/CASTL	
Nominal Quantity in direct object positions

3:30-4:00	
Coffee break

4:30-5:15	
Diane Massam (Invited speaker)
University of Toronto	
Counting, classifiers, and number in Niuean

5:15-6:15	
Workshop Discussion

8:00	
Party at Martina Wiltschko's house






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