33.2572, Calls: General Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Germany

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Subject: 33.2572, Calls: General Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Germany

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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 07:25:28
From: Ljudmila Geist [Ljudmila.Geist at ling.uni-stuttgart.de]
Subject: 45th DGfS 2023 AG2 Divide and Count: On the (Morpho-)Syntax and Semantics of Division, Plurality and Countability

Full Title: 45th DGfS 2023 AG2 Divide and Count: On the (Morpho-)Syntax and Semantics of Division, Plurality and Countability 
Short Title: 45th DGfS 2023 AG2 

Date: 08-Mar-2023 - 10-Mar-2023
Location: Cologne, Germany 
Contact Person: Ljudmila Geist
Meeting Email: Ljudmila.Geist at ling.uni-stuttgart.de
Web Site: https://dgfs2023.uni-koeln.de/en/ 

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

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2022 

Meeting Description:

Counting is a curious thing: while mathematicians talk about countable and
uncountable infinities, linguists talk about countable and uncountable nouns –
and wonder how many countabilities there are in the first place. The issue of
countability is a rather complex topic and minimally involves the following
aspects:

 - Countability per se (diagnostics)
 - Nominal denotations (individuals, “stuff”, collections, kinds …?)
 - The thing being counted (individuals, measure-units, pluralities …?)
 - Kinds of Numerals
 - Plurality and Cardinality
 - Partitivity

Notably, in order to understand how countability is encoded in natural
language, it is essential and instructive to carefully examine the
morphosyntactic reflexes and syntactic dependencies pertaining to the above
notions. Also the lexicon might give interesting insights (e.g. pluralia
tantum). Besides the traditional singular vs. plural distinction, some
languages also have dual, paucal NUMBER; likewise, the distinction mass vs.
count may not exhaust the range of countabilities across languages. As was
shown very thoroughly by Grimm (2012), the traditional two-way distinctions
between mass/count and singular/plural are not sufficient to capture richer
grammatical number systems involving singulative-collective marking. In
addition, counting and grammatical NUMBER (marking) do not necessarily go hand
in hand and we find morpho-semantic mismatches; case in point: languages where
counted nouns are morphologically marked as singular (e.g. Estonian,
Hungarian, Turkish).

Semantic accounts (e.g. Link 1983, Krifka 1989) have often focused on the
semantics of the plural (sum individuals), or the similarities between plural
and mass denotations (cumulativity), while syntactic accounts (e.g. Löbel
1989, Ritter 1992) have established that NUMBER is a separate functional
category. Borer (2005) argues that the functional projection realizing the
English plural -s is also responsible for division which makes counting
possible in the first place. Mathieu (2012) elaborating on Grimm and Borer
argues that there are even more “flavors of division” and, plural morpheme may
not only indicate division but can realize other functional heads in the
fine-grained DP-structure (s. also Alexiadou 2011).

2nd Call for Papers:

Extended deadline for submissions: 31 Aug, 2022

We invite papers investigating these issues from a theoretical
(syntax-semantics-interface) as well as a typological perspective.
The questions we wish to address include, but are not limited to the
following:
- What kinds of countable entities are recognized by natural language?
- What are the semantic building blocks of counting and division, and how are
they reflected in the syntax (e.g. COUNT NOUN = MASS NOUN + DIVISION, cf.
Borer 2005)?
- Do functional categories contributing to division and countability have the
same universal features or may their content vary cross-linguistically
(Wiltschko 2014)?
- What is the role of NUMBER in building kind-referring expressions (Dayal
2004 vs. Borik & Espinal 2020)?

We invite submissions for talks (20 minutes + 10 discussion). Abstracts should
be submitted via email to dgfs2023-divide-countparting-project.de by August
31, 2022

Abstract Guidelines:
Abstracts, including examples and figures, must not exceed two A4 pages with
1-inch/2.5 cm margins on all sides, and be set in Times New Roman with at
least 12-point font throughout. References may appear on a third page.
Examples, tables, graphs, etc. should be interspersed into the text of the
abstract, rather than collected at the end. Abstracts should be submitted as a
PDF. Submissions are limited to at most one single-authored submission and one
joint-authored submission per author. Upon acceptance, participants will be
requested to submit a shortened version of the abstract for the conference
booklet.

Invited speaker: Eric Mathieu (University of Ottawa, Linguistics)

Organizers:
Eleonore Brandner (University of Stuttgart)
Ljudmila Geist (University of Stuttgart)
Alexander Pfaff (University of Stuttgart)

Meeting Email: dgfs2023-divide-count at parting-project.de

Important Deadlines:
Deadline for abstract submission: August 31, 2022
Workshop: 8-10 March 2023

Workshop information:
The workshop will most likely take place in person. Please be prepared to
travel to the conference to be able to take part in it. Please note that the
regulations of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) do not allow workshop
participants to present two or more papers in different workshops.

Travel grants:
A limited number of travel grants of up to 500 Euro are available for accepted
contributions by DGfS members without/with low income.

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