26.5459, Calls: Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Mexico

Tue Dec 8 15:59:29 UTC 2015

LINGUIST List: Vol-26-5459. Tue Dec 08 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.5459, Calls: Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Mexico

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Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 10:59:24
From: Ana Aguilar Guevara [anaaguilarguevara at gmail.com]
Subject: Definiteness across Languages

Full Title: Definiteness across Languages 
Short Title: DEFLANG1 

Date: 22-Jun-2016 - 24-Jun-2016
Location: Mexico City, Mexico 
Contact Person: Ana Aguilar Guevara
Meeting Email: anaaguilarguevara at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/definitenessacrosslanguages/home 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 14-Feb-2016 

Meeting Description:

The Faculty of Philosophy and Literature of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Center for Linguistic and Literary Studies of El Colegio de México will host a workshop on definiteness across languages,  which will take place in June 22-24, in Mexico City. The aim of this event is to bring together linguists working on the syntactic and semantic description of languages as well as on the development of theories in order to discuss answers to two main questions: 

i. What formal strategies do natural languages use to express definiteness?
ii. What are the possible meanings of their definite noun phrases?

The invited speakers are: 
Bert Le Bruyn (Utrecht University) 
Florian Schwarz  (University of Pennsylvania)

Please send your questions to the following email address:  definitenessacrosslanguages at gmail.com    

Organizers:

Ana Aguilar Guevara (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
Julia Pozas Loyo (El Colegio de México)
Violeta Vázquez-Rojas Maldonado (El Colegio de México)

Call for Papers:

We invite submissions contributing to the study of any aspect of the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of definite noun phrases in natural languages. Please submit an abstract in PDF format of no more than one page of text with an additional page for extra data, figures, and references. This file must not contain any personal information or affiliation, and must be submitted via EasyChair.  Please follow these submission instructions.

The talks, which can be given either in English or in Spanish,  should be 30 minutes long followed by 10 minutes of discussion. 

The important dates are:

Deadline for abstract submission: February 14, 2016 
Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2016 
Conference dates: June 22-24, 2016

Please send your questions to the following email address:  definitenessacrosslanguages at gmail.com

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