24.4231, Confs: General Linguistics, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/Switzerland

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Subject: 24.4231, Confs: General Linguistics, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/Switzerland

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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 11:03:01
From: David Gerards [davidpaul.gerards at uzh.ch]
Subject: Mass and count in Romance and Germanic languages

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 Mass and count in Romance and Germanic languages 

Date: 16-Dec-2013 - 17-Dec-2013 
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact: Natascha Pomino 
Contact Email: npomino at rom.uzh.ch 
Meeting URL: http://www.spur.uzh.ch/veranstaltungen.html#7 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

Workshop 'Mass and count in Romance and Germanic languages'
coordinated by the University of Zurich's Research Center (UFSP) 'Language and Space' - University of Zurich, 16th and 17th of December 2013)

This workshop is intended as a discussion forum for research on the semantics and morphosyntactic encoding of the mass-count distinction, mainly, but not exclusively, in Romance and Germanic languages and varieties (cf. e.g. the survey in Massam, Diane (ed.) (2012), Count and Mass Across Languages, Oxford: Oxford University Press). 
Questions to be addressed concern all kinds of semantic and morphosyntactic phenomena (absence of determiners, partitive determiners, indefinite articles with mass nominals, gender and its interplay with a mass vs. count reading of nominals etc.), and if possible their areal distribution.

For more information please contact Dr. Natascha Pomino: npomino at rom.uzh.ch
and Gabrielle Hess (Housing, addresses, refunding etc.): ghess at rom.uzh.ch 

Monday, 16.12.2013

9.15-9.30	
Opening remarks (E. Glaser, Universität Zürich)

9.30-10.30	
Areal pathways of bare nouns in Romance. J. Kabatek (Universität Zürich)

10.30-11.30	
Indefiniteness, mass and the neuter gender: evidence from 
Central-Southern Italo-Romance. T. Paciaroni / M. Loporcaro (Universität Zürich)

11.30-12.30  	
Nominal morphology and semantics - where's gender in  
Gallroromance? E. Stark (Universität Zürich)

12.30-14.30 	
Lunch break

14.30-15.30 	
Count Mass and Number in the Niuean nominal phrase.
D. Massam (University of Toronto, Ontario , Canada)

15.30-16.30	
The role of base levels for mass/count conceptualisations in  
Chintang. R. Schikowsky (Universität Zürich)

16.30-17.00	
Coffee break

17.00-18.00 	
Scary nouns denoting food in modern Russian.
D. Weiss (Universität Zürich)

18.00-19.00	
Automatically detecting mass nouns in English.
D. Schreier / G. Schneider (Universität Zürich)

from 19.30	
Conference Dinner

Tuesday, 17.12.2013

9.00-9.30 
Coffee break

10.30-11.30 
Synchronic and diachronic aspects of the MASS/COUNT-distinction in 
 some Upper German dialects.E. Glaser / A. Kolmer (Universität Zürich)

11.30-12.30 
tba
M. Krifka (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin)

Final discussion

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