program Bare Nouns Workshop, 26-27 Nov

[mardale at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR]

Chers Collègues,

Je vous rappelle que le workshop 'Bare Nouns: Syntactic Projections and their
Interpretation' aura lieu les 26 et 27 novembre.

Vous trouverez ci-dessous, ainsi qu'à l'adresse suivante, le programme détaillé
et des informations sur le lieu de l'événement :

http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/colloques-fr.php

En espérant vous voir nombreux,

Alexandru Mardale
pour le comité d'organisation


WORKSHOP ON BARE NOUNS : SYNTACTIC PROJECTIONS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION

Université Paris Diderot – Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle – UMR 7110 CNRS,
November 26 – 27, 2009

The workshop will be held at Esplanade des Olympiades, Bâtiment Montréal (near
Grenoble Building)

103 rue Tolbiac or 59 rue Nationale, Paris 75013
M° 14 : Olympiades ; Bus 62, 64, 83 : Olympiades

WORKSHOP ON BARE NOUNS : SYNTACTIC PROJECTIONS
AND THEIR INTERPRETATION
Université Paris Diderot – Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle – UMR 7110 CNRS,
November 26 – 27, 2009
The workshop will be held at Esplanade des Olympiades, Bâtiment Montréal (near
Grenoble Building)
103 rue Tolbiac or 59 rue Nationale, Paris 75013
M° 14 : Olympiades ; Bus 62, 64, 83 : Olympiades


PROGRAM
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26

Room 18
8h45 – 9h : Opening
9h – 10 h : Invited speaker
Fred Landman (Tel Aviv University)
Incremental homogeneity in the semantics of aspectual for-phrases
10h – 10h45 : Maria Teresa Espinal (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) & Louise
McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
The syntax of bare nominal objects in Catalan and Spanish
10h45 – 11h : Break
11h – 11h45 : Bert Le Bruyn (Utrecht University)
Article and Bare predication in English and Dutch: A semantic / pragmatic
approach
11h45 – 12h30 : Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus)
The nature of nP (and vP): from roots to nouns (and verbs)

12h30 – 14h : Lunch break

14h – 14h45 : Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (UMR 7023 CNRS / Paris 8 – SMG Surrey)
Number neutrality and the interpretation of bare singular objects
14h45 – 15h30 : Dora Alexopoulou (University of Cambridge) & Raffaella Folli
(University of Ulster)
Indefinite topics, bare nouns and object drop in Greek and Italian
15h30 – 16h15 : Jaume Mateu (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Denominal verbs, bare nouns, and the Canonical Use Constraint revisited
16h15 – 16h30 : Break
16h30 – 17h15 : Marta Donazzan (Université Paris 8, UMR 7023 – CNRS)
On Indefinite Bare Objects in Mandarin Chinese
17h15 – 18h : Victor Manfredi (Boston University)
The referential prosody of bare arguments


FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27
Amphithéâtre 50

9h – 10h : Invited speaker
Susan Rothstein (Bar Ilan University)
Bare nouns and natural atomicity
10h – 10h45 : Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (LLF UMR 7110 – CNRS, Université Paris 7)
Generic bare mass nouns
10h45 – 11h : Break
11h – 11h45 : Bert Le Bruyn, Henriëtte de Swart, Joost Zwarts (Utrecht
University)
Bare PPs across languages
11h45 – 12h30 : Ileana Paul (University of Western Ontario)
Wide-scoping bare nouns in Malagasy

12h30 – 14h : Lunch break

14h – 14h45 : Artemis Alexiadou (Stuttgart University)
Mass nouns and the grammar of Number
14h45 – 15h30 : Urtzi Etxeberria & Ricardo Etxepare (IKER – CNRS)
Number Agreement and the way it Affects to Measuring in Basque
15h30 – 16h15 : Andrea Wilhelm (University of Victoria)
Evidence for nP, but not for NumP
16h15 – 16h30 : Break
16h30 – 17h30 : Invited speaker
Richard Kayne (New York University)
More Articles Than Meet the Eye

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

We gratefully acknowledge the support of
Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (CNRS UMR 7110)
Project Dépendances distributives : pluralité nominale et verbale, Fédération
“Typologie et universaux linguistiques” (CNRS FR 2559, Leaders Patricia Cabredo
Hofherr & Brenda Laca)
Project GENIUS: Genericity Interpretation and Uses (ANR 08-JCJC-0069-01) (Leader
Alda Mari)





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