33.1656, Confs: General Linguistics, Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Czech Republic

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Subject: 33.1656, Confs: General Linguistics, Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Czech Republic

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Date: Tue, 10 May 2022 23:31:13
From: Marcin Wągiel [marcin.wagiel at phil.muni.cz]
Subject: Part-whole Structures in Natural Language

 
Part-whole Structures in Natural Language 

Date: 26-May-2022 - 27-May-2022 
Location: Online (Brno), Czech Republic 
Contact: Marcin Wągiel 
Contact Email: marcin.wagiel at phil.muni.cz 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/part-whole-workshop 

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

Meeting Description: 

The part-whole relation is an important notion in human mind that plays a
crucial role in how we perceive and categorize objects in the external world
as well as mind-internal representations. This workshop is dedicated to
various expressions of this concept in natural language. It focuses mainly on
semantic (but also syntactic) properties of part-whole structures within
partitives, different types of pluralities, the mass/count distinction and
event structure both from a theoretical and empirical perspective. The talks
will investigate a variety of expressions referring within distinct
ontological domains such as concrete individuals, eventualities and other
abstract entities and offer mereological considerations based on a wide
variety of linguistic evidence including data from typologically diverse
languages, language acquisition and diachronic research. We hope that this
event will contribute to the search of universal properties of the module of
language faculty dedicated to the notion of part-whole.

The workshop is an online event organized by the Department of Linguistics and
Baltic Languages at the Masaryk University in Brno. It is part of the research
project ''Part-whole structures across languages'' (GA20-16107S) funded by the
Czech Science Foundation (GAČR). 

If you are interested in participating as an audience member, please fill in
the registration form available on:
https://sites.google.com/view/part-whole-workshop . The link to the talks will
be sent to the provided e-mail address shortly before the workshop.
 

Program:

Thursday 26 May 2022

12:45-13:00 Opening remarks

13:00-13:45 Viola Schmitt (Humboldt University of Berlin): Modal operators,
orderings and the lack of world pluralities
13:45-14:30 Pavel Caha (Masaryk University in Brno): The (pseudo-)morphology
of the pseudo-partitives

14:30-15:00 Break

15:00-15:45 Sarah Zobel (Humboldt University of Berlin): The German adverb of
quantity größtenteils: Quantification over parts
15:45-16:30 Artemis Alexiadou (Leibniz-ZAS Berlin): Numeral-noun combinations
and the hidden partitive hypothesis revisited

16:30-17:00 Break

17:00-17:45 Nina Haslinger (University of Göttingen): Contextual constraints
on 'weak' plural predication: A unified perspective on cumulativity and
non-maximality
17:45-18:30 Lucas Champollion (New York University): Negative events and
truthmaker semantics

Friday 27 May 2022

13:00-13:45 Michelangelo Falco & Roberto Zamparelli (University of Trento):
Covert partitives
13:45-14:30 Kurt Erbach (Saarland University): Towards a history of the
English countability system

14:30-15:00 Break

15:00-15:45 Mathieu Paillé (McGill University): Inclusion of parts, or
exclusion of predicates Comparing two exhaustivity accounts of homogeneity
15:45-16:30 Peter Sutton (UPF Barcelona): Countability, copredication and
polysemy

16:30-17:00 Break

17:00-17:45 Scott Grimm (University of Rochester): Counting, relations and
context
17:45-18:30 Marcin Wągiel (Masaryk University in Brno): Event-internal and
external quantification and mereotopology of events





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