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Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 10:52:55
From: Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga [dl518 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: The Generic Notebook: Current Approaches to Genericity

 
The Generic Notebook: Current Approaches to Genericity 

Date: 02-Jun-2017 - 02-Jun-2017 
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact: Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga 
Contact Email: dl518 at cam.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.dimitra-lazaridou-chatzigoga.com/generic-notebook/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Language Acquisition; Linguistic Theories; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

The Research Unit on Experimental Syntax and Heritage Languages (RUESHeL) of
the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is organising a one-day workshop on
genericity on Friday 2 June 2017.

Generic generalisations such as ‘Birds fly’, ‘A cat lands on its feet’ and
‘The dodo is extinct’ allow speakers to talk about kinds of individuals. They
are used to convey characteristic properties of kinds -while allowing for
exceptions (e.g. not all birds fly)- and to express knowledge about the world
including beliefs, stereotypes and prejudices (e.g. women talk more than men).
Generics can be seen as one of the building blocks of human cognition, as they
allow us to organise our experience of the world, while they are ubiquitous in
everyday communication both between adults and with children.

In recent years, we evidence a broad cross-disciplinary interest in the study
of genericity, ranging from philosophical and linguistic approaches to
psychological and developmental experimental work. These divergent approaches
provide different answers to the puzzle of genericity. Thus, encouraging
discussions between theoretically-driven and experimentally-driven research
can prove particularly fruitful.

More than twenty years after the publication of Carlson and Pelletier’s
seminal collective work in The Generic Book (Chicago University Press, 1995),
this workshop aims to showcase current approaches to genericity, combining
insights and methods from theoretical linguistics and experimental psychology
in order to compile the Generic Notebook, where complementary and converging
answers to the puzzle of genericity can be annotated.

Invited speakers:
Veneeta Dayal
M.Teresa Espinal 
Matthew Husband
Napoleon Katsos
Manfred Krifka

Workshop location:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Room: 3.246
Address: Dorotheenstraße 24, D-10117 Berlin (main entrance: Hegelplatz 2)

Organisers:
Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/University of
Cambridge
Artemis Alexiadou, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Places are limited, so please send an email to dl518(at)cam.ac.uk, if you are
interested in attending. Registration will be open until 26/05/2017.
 

Provisional Program

Friday 2 June 2017

10:00-10:15 
Welcome

10:15-11:15 
M.Teresa Espinal (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
“Reference to kinds and to event kinds” 

11:15-12:15 
Matthew Husband (Oxford University)
“Number and asymmetric conceptual connections in genericity” 

12.15-13.45 Lunch break

13:45-14:45 
Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge)
(joint work with Linnaea Stockall and Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga)
“Exceptionality and strikingness in the acquisition of genericity”

14:45-15:45 
Manfred Krifka (Leibniz-ZAS/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) TBA

15:45-16:15 Coffee Break

16:15-17:15 
Veneeta Dayal (Rutgers University)
“(In)Definiteness through Genericity”

Workshop Dinner (TBC)

RUESHel (Research Unit in Experimental Syntax and Heritage Languages) 
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis 2014 awarded to Prof. Artemis Alexiadou:
AL554/8-1





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