Last Call for Papers, Bare Nouns: syntactic projections and their interpretation

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Last Call for Papers

Bare nouns: syntactic projections and their interpretation

The workshop on "Bare nouns: syntactic projections and their interpretation"
will be held at the University Paris Diderot – Laboratoire de Linguistique
Formelle – UMR 7110 CNRS on November 26 – 28, 2009. The workshop is organized
by the bilateral projects Hubert Curien – Picasso 2007 – 2009 (resp. Carmen
Dobrovie-Sorin, LLF Université Paris Diderot, France) and Acció integrada
hispanofrancesa HF 2007-0039 (resp. Maria Teresa Espinal, Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona, Spain):
http://seneca.uab.cat/clt/activitats/congressos.html


The workshop will consist of 3 invited talks, 10 talks by members of the
above-mentioned projects, and 10 selected talks (30 min. + 15 min. of
discussion) bearing on any aspect of the syntax and/or semantics of bare
nominals, including the following: (i) Should we assume three distinct levels
of syntactic representation (DP, NumP and NP) or only one (NP) or two (DP and
NP)? (ii) Do we need to postulate little n and if so, do we still need Number
as a functional category or should we analyze Number as a feature? (iii) What
are the parameters that are relevant for the crosslinguistic variation in the
use of bare nominals? (iv) Should classifiers be viewed as counterparts of
Number or rather as counterparts of Gender?

The languages of the workshop are English and French.

Invited speakers

Richard Kayne (to be confirmed) (New York University)
Fred Landman (Tel Aviv University)
Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan University)

Speakers (members of the teams of the bilateral Projects mentioned above)

Claire Beyssade (Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS, Paris)
Patricia Cabredo-Hofherr (SFL – UMR 7023, CNRS, Université Paris Vincennes – St.
Denis)
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (LLF – UMR 7110 CNRS, Université Paris Diderot)
Marta Donazzan (LLF – UMR 7110 CNRS & Université Paris Vincennes – St. Denis)
Alain Kihm (LLF – UMR 7110 CNRS, Université Paris Diderot)
Brenda Laca (Université Paris Vincennes – St. Denis & SFL – UMR 7023, CNRS)
Alexandru Mardale (INALCO de Paris, ECO & LLF – UMR 7110 CNRS)
Jaume Mateu (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Maria Teresa Espinal (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)


Organizers

Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (LLF – UMR 7110 CNRS, Université Paris Diderot)
Alexandru Mardale (INALCO de Paris, ECO & LLF – UMR 7110 CNRS)


Selection Committee

Claire Beyssade (Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS, Paris)
Patricia Cabredo-Hofherr (SFL – UMR 7023, CNRS, Université Paris Vincennes – St.
Denis)
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (LLF – UMR 7110 CNRS, Université Paris Diderot)
Brenda Laca (Université Paris Vincennes – St. Denis & SFL – UMR 7023, CNRS)
Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Maria Teresa Espinal (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)


Submissions

Authors are required to submit two abstracts, an anonymous one (for selection)
and a non-anonymous one (for diffusion and booklet of abstracts). Submissions
should preferentially be sent in PDF format (but DOC, RTF and POSTSCRIPT are
also accepted). Abstracts should not exceed two pages (examples, references and
figures included). Pages should have a 2 cm margin on all four sides (measured
on A4 paper). Font type: Times New Roman, 12 pt. Line spacing: single. The
first line of the abstract should contain the title of the paper in boldface,
the second line the author's name(s), the third line the affiliation(s) and the
fourth line the email address(es). A blank line should be left between the title
lines and the text of the abstract.

Important : An author can submit a maximum of two abstracts: one as a single
author and another one as a co-author; or two as a co-author.

Abstracts must be submitted via email before September 1, 2009 to the following
address:

mardale at linguist.jussieu.fr

Important dates
Workshop: November 26 – 28, 2009
Deadline for submission: September 1, 2009
Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2009
Program: October 15, 2009

Please direct all inquiries to:

mardale at linguist.jussieu.fr

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