20.3039, Confs: Cognitive Science, Semantics, Syntax/Spain

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Subject: 20.3039, Confs: Cognitive Science, Semantics, Syntax/Spain

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Date: 08-Sep-2009
From: Klaus von Heusinger < klaus.vonheusinger at ling.uni-stuttgart.de >
Subject: Converging Linguistics and Cognitive Science
 

	
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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:36:45
From: Klaus von Heusinger [klaus.vonheusinger at ling.uni-stuttgart.de]
Subject: Converging Linguistics and Cognitive Science

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Converging Linguistics and Cognitive Science 
Short Title: CoLiCo 

Date: 15-Sep-2009 - 17-Sep-2009 
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact: Klaus von Heusinger 
Contact Email: klaus.vonheusinger at ling.uni-stuttgart.de 
Meeting URL: http://seneca.uab.cat/clt/nominalsystems/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

Converging Linguistics and Cognitive Science: Nominal Systems across Languages 

The workshop is organized by M. Teresa Espinal (Universitat Autonoma de
Barcelona) and Klaus von Heusinger (Universität Stuttgart). It is hosted by
Centre de Linguistica Teorica of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.

This workshop aims at understanding linguistic variation of nominal systems
across several languages, bringing together syntacticians and semanticists. The
novelty of the workshop is to explore noun phrases, their structure and
interpretation, from a comparative-syntax perspective and a formal semantics
approach. Special attention will be devoted to microvariation effects on the
expression of 'number' and 'definiteness'.

The workshop will explore three different and related topics to be analysed in
order to achieve a broad crosslinguistic understanding of nominal systems in
natural languages, both from a morphosyntactic and a semantic perspective. 

Topics:
Bare nominals (singulars and plurals): their structure and interpretation.
Number neutrality.
Number: its structure and interpretation. Gender and Person.
Definiteness: reference, specificity and genericity. 

Barcelona | September 14-16, 2009
 
September 14: 
Bare Nominals (Singulars and Plurals): Their Structure and Interpretation

Number Neutrality

Gennaro Chierchia 
The Nominal Mapping Parameter Ten Years Later

Veneeta Dayal 	
Bare Singulars: Arguments, Incorporated Nominals and Compounds 
 
M. Teresa Espinal & Louise McNally 	
The Interpretation of Bare Nominals in Catalan and Spanish 

Carmen Dobrovie Sorin 	
Number Neutrality 
 
Lisa Lai Shen Cheng 	
''Bare'' Nouns in Chinese and Bantu

September 15: 
Number: Its Structure and Interpretation
Gender and Person
 
Artemis Alexiadou 	
Form-Meaning Asymmetries in the Noun Phrase: The Case of Number 
 
Alain Kihm	
Relevance vs. 'Real World' Quantity in the (Non)Marking Of Plurality: A Morpho-Semantic Approach 
 
Henriette de Swart	
Semantics and Pragmatics of Plurality

Abdelkader Fassi Fehri 	
Kinds of Number and Gender: Syntax and Interpretation

Denis Delfitto 	
On the (In)Dependence of Person
 
September 16: 
Definiteness: Reference, Specificity and Genericity
 
Hans Kamp	
Expressing and Communicating Thought and the Epistemic Specificity of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases

Giuseppe Longobardi 	
How Universal is DP?

Viviane Déprez 	
Number and Definitness in French Based Creoles

Roberto Zamparelli 	
Pronominal Modifiers

Klaus von Heusinger 	
The Domains of Specificity





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