28.2490, Confs: Historical Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Italy

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Subject: 28.2490, Confs: Historical Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Italy

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Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 13:50:15
From: Chiara Gianollo [chiara.gianollo at unibo.it]
Subject: The grammar of reference and quantification: functions, variation, and change

 
The grammar of reference and quantification: functions, variation, and change 
Short Title: RED2017 

Date: 15-Jun-2017 - 16-Jun-2017 
Location: Bologna, Italy 
Contact: Chiara Gianollo 
Contact Email: chiara.gianollo at unibo.it 
Meeting URL: http://red.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/red2017/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The International Workshop ‘The grammar of reference and quantification:
functions, variation, and change’ will take place at the University of Bologna
(Italy), June 15-16 2017, as the 2017 edition of the series ‘Workshops on
Referential Expressions in Discourse (RED)’. It is organized by Klaus von
Heusinger (Universität zu Köln, Germany), Chiara Gianollo (Università di
Bologna, Italy) and Nicola Grandi (Università di Bologna, Italy).
The meeting continues the discussion opened during the 2016 version on the
interface properties of reference and quantification: this time the
participants will discuss the written version of their contribution, in order
to produce a joint publication. 

Attendance is free. For organizational reasons, we would appreciate an email
to chiara.gianollo at unibo.it.
 

Thursday 15.06.2017

Discussants: Klaus von Heusinger, Hans Kamp, Elisabeth Stark, Chiara Gianollo

9.45 - 10.00
Welcome / Introduction

10.00 - 11.15
Maria Aloni - Indefinites as fossils

11.15 - 11.45 coffee

11.45 - 13.00
Edgar Onea - Reference and Questions

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.15
Mario Squartini - Quantification and classification in Romance indefinite
determiners: Number or Seinsart?

15.15 - 15.45 coffee

15.45 - 17.00
Cecilia Poletto - What’s in a QP? On the internal structure of 
bare Qs and quantified nominal expressions

18.30
City walk

19.30 Dinner


Friday 16.06.2017

Discussants: Martin Becker, Maria Napoli, Chiara Gianollo & Klaus von
Heusinger

9.15 - 10.30
Irene Franco - N-words in Old Italian

10.30 - 11.00 coffee

11.00 - 12.15
Svetlana Petrova - Bare and indefinite nominal predicates in the
history of German

12.15 - 13.30
Manuel Leonetti - Grammar and pragmatics in referential null subjects

13.30 - 13.45
Concluding information & goodbye





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