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Date: 11-May-2011
From: Alda Mari [alda.mari at ens.fr]
Subject: Genericity: From Morphology to Cognition
 

	
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Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 12:43:33
From: Alda Mari [alda.mari at ens.fr]
Subject: Genericity: From Morphology to Cognition

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Full Title: Genericity: From Morphology to Cognition 
Short Title: GENIUS III 

Date: 04-Dec-2011 - 05-Dec-2011
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Alda Mari
Meeting Email: alda.mari at ens.fr
Web Site: http://geniusconference.org/ 

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

Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2011 

Meeting Description:

The third edition of GENIUS: Genericity: Interpretation and Uses Conference
will bring together theoreticians from morphology, syntax, semantics,
pragmatics and cognition around the theme of genericity. This third
conference on generics aims to:

(i) Bring together works on different languages, reconsidering the
ontological questions linked to genericity. Should one postulate species in
addition to particular individuals? What differences are there between a
species and a set of individuals? Between a species and a set of properties?
(ii) Examine the relations between genericity, mass nouns and plurality.
(iii) Re-evaluate the relevance of the distinction between 'GEN' and 'HAB',
states and events, and the distinction between stage-level and
individual-level properties.
(iv) Articulate questions of syntax and semantics from a pragmatic
perspective. In many languages, no specific linguistic form is dedicated to
expressing genericity. The conference will gather work identifying the
conditions under which a sentence is construed generically, articulating
research on the structure of information, discourse, and prosody,
reconsidering the distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments, and
examining under which conditions genericity might be independent of
inductive inferences.
(v) Articulate the question of exceptions, in particular at the interface
of semantics and pragmatics (addressing the relation between genericity and
free choice, genericity and vagueness, and contextual interpretation more
generally).

Invited Speakers:

Ariel Cohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Yael Greenberg (Bar Ilan University)
Sarah-Jane Leslie (Princeton University)
Alice ter Meulen (University of Geneva)
Sandeep Prasada (CUNY, NY)
Anne Zribi-Hertz (Paris VIII)
Roberto Zamparelli (University of Trento)

Registration:

The registration is free. Registration page:
http://geniusconference.org/?page_id=43 

Call for Papers:

In this third and last edition of Genius, we would like to encourage
discussions between linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists on
the questions of modelisation, interpretation, and acquisition of generics.
Hence experimental and philosophical papers on genericity are very welcome.

Abstract Submission:

Authors are welcome to submit at most one individual and one co-authored
paper.  Anonymous abstracts in pdf format not exceeding 2 pages with
standard 1 inch margins on all sides, including examples, figures and
references, are to be submitted via EasyChair at the following URL:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=genius3

Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: July 31, 2011
Notification of acceptance/rejection: September 30, 2011
Program: October 15, 2011

Scientific Committee:

Nicholas Asher (CNRS - IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier)
Claire Beyssade (CNRS - IJN)
Ariel Cohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Francis Corblin (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, CNRS)
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (Université Paris 7, CNRS)
Yael Greenberg (Bar Ilan University)
Christopher Piñon (Université de Lille 3)
Brenda Laca (Université Paris 8)
Sarah-Jane Leslie (Princeton University)
Alda Mari (CNRS - IJN)
Alice ter Meulen (University of Geneva)
David Nicolas (CNRS - IJN)
Christopher Piñon (Université de Lille 3)
Isidora Stojanovic (CNRS - IJN)
Anne Zribi-Hertz (Paris VIII)
Roberto Zamparelli (University of Trento)

Conference Organization:

Claire Beyssade (CNRS - IJN)
Alda Mari (CNRS - IJN)
Susan Schweitzer (Université Paris 6)

For prior Genius conferences: http://www.genericity.ens.fr/

The conference is sponsored by the ANR Project GENIUS: Genericity
Interpretation and Uses.







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