26.201, Confs: Syntax, Morphology, Typology, Semantics, General Linguistics/France

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Subject: 26.201, Confs: Syntax, Morphology, Typology, Semantics, General Linguistics/France

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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 12:58:53
From: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr [pcabredo at univ-paris8.fr]
Subject: Conference on Reference Impersonals

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Conference on Reference Impersonals 

Date: 04-Feb-2015 - 05-Feb-2015 
Location: Paris, France 
Contact: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr 
Contact Email: pcabredo at univ-paris8.fr 
Meeting URL: http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/Colloque-R-impersonnels-Conference.html 

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

Meeting Description: 

The conference focuses on the morphological, syntactic and semantic properties of impersonal pronouns allowing human reference such as English one, they, you, French on, ils, ça, tu, Germanic man/men, Spanish uno and 3pl null subjects (R-impersonals in Siewierska’s terminology).

Invited Speakers:

 - Denis Creissels (DDL - Lyon)
 - Gilles Polian (CIESAS, San Cristóbal de las Casas)

This conference is part of the project Towards a typology of human impersonal pronouns (ANR-DFG).

The conference will be followed by a Workshop on Sign languages and R-impersonal pronouns
on Friday, 6 February 2015, at the CNRS Pouchet-Center, Paris, France 

Program:

See the full program at :
http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/Colloque-R-impersonnels-Conference.html

This conference is part of the project Towards a typology of human impersonal pronouns (ANR-DFG).

Mercredi 4 février / Wednesday, 4 February 2015

10:00-11:00
Conférence invitée / Invited speaker :
Denis Creissels (DDL- Lyon)
R-impersonals in Atlantic and Mande languages

11:00-11:30 coffee

11:30-12:10
Paulette Roulon (LLACAN - CNRS)
Le cas du pronom impersonnel dans une langue isolante à faible morphologie, le gbaya

12:10-14:00 Déjeuner / lunch

14:00-14:40
Volker Gast, Lisa Deringer, Florian Haas & Olga Rudolf (Jena)
Towards a typology of impersonals : Parameters of variation and patterns

14:40-15:20
Daniel Van Olmen (Lancaster University), Adri Breed (North-West University Potchefstroom) & Ben Verhoeven (University of Antwerp)
The ’human’ impersonal pronoun in Afrikaans vs European West Germanic

15:20-16:00
Paula Fenger (U Connecticut)
Dutch men must agree (while Frisian men need not). On the syntactic distribution of dedicated impersonal pronouns

16:00-16:20 Coffee

16:20-17:00
Malgorzata Krzek (Newcastle University)
Clusivity of the null subject pronoun in the Polish -NO/-TO construction

17:00-17:40
Elena Paducheva (Russian academy of sciences, VINITI)
Impersonality vs. first-person-oriented genericity in Russian


Jeudi 5 février / Thursday, 5 February 2015

9:30-10:30
Conférencier invité / invited speaker :
Gilles Polian (CIESAS, San Cristóbal de las Casas)
R-impersonals in San Pedro Mixtepec Zapotec

10:30-11:00 Coffee

11:00-11:40
Lisa Deringer, Volker Gast, Florian Haas & Olga Rudolf (Jena)
Empathy and solidarity in impersonal uses of the second person

11:40-12:20
Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (UMR 7023, CNRS & Paris 8)
R-impersonal pronouns and distributivity

12:20-14h Lunch

14:00-14:40
Maria do Pilar Barbosa (CEHUM/Universidade do Minho)
Null (inclusive) impersonals

14:40-15:20
Silvia Regina de Oliveira Cavalcante (FU, Berlin / U Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Semantic constraints for the null generic pronoun in Brazilian Portuguese

15:20-16:00
Eduardo Correa Soares (U. Paris Diderot)
Impersonal null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese

16:00-16:20 Coffee

16:20-17:00
Gemma Barberà (UMR 7023, CNRS & Paris 8) & Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (UMR 7023, CNRS & Paris 8)
Passive or impersonal ? Evidence from Catalan and Italian Sign Language

17:00-17:40
Frédéric Landragin (Lattice-CNRS, ENS & U. Paris 3)
Coreference in the light of pronouns with indefinite reference

This conference is followed by a Workshop on Sign languages and R-impersonal pronouns
on Friday, 6 February 2015.
Salle de conférences, CNRS Pouchet
59 rue Pouchet, 75017 Paris
métro Guy Môquet or Brochant (ligne 13)
Plan/ Map : http://www.pouchet.cnrs.fr/plan.htm

Workshop website Sign Langages and R-impersonals :
http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/Journee-Langues-des-signes-et-R.html








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