[PROGRAM MODIFIED] Colloquium "Mass/Count", December 20-21, Paris

[Arapinis Alexandra]

IMPORTANT:

- THE PROGRAM HAS BEEN SLIGHTLY MODIFIED!

- CONFERENCE RECEPTION: Thursday, December 20

- BOOK OF ABSTRACTS AND READING MATERIAL AVAILABLE ON THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE

- REGISTRATION REQUIRED (SEE WEBSITE)

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It is our pleasure to announce the colloquium “Mass/Count in Linguistics,
Philosophy and Cognitive Science”.

December 20-21, 2012
ENS-Paris
45 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris

With the support of the Paris Diderot University, IHPST, IEC (Linguistics
Department) and the ANR-DFG NOMINAL project.

Organizers: Alexandra Arapinis (IHPST), Friederike Moltmann (IHPST), Lucia
Tovena (Paris Diderot University)

The colloquium will be preceded by a one-day tutorial on the mass/count
distinction given by Friederike Moltmann (IHPST) and David Nicholas (IJN).

Registration is required. It is done in two steps: (i) pre-registration on the
conference website, (ii) final registration and payment on-site.
To pre-register, create an account on the conference website, log in, and fill
in the registration form.

Reduced registration fee may be envisaged upon personal request to the
organizers.

Registration fees and other practical information are available on the
conference website:
http://mass-count.sciencesconf.org/

Program

Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS)
45 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris

Wednesday, December 19
Tutorial on the mass/count distinction:
11.00 - 13.00   David Nicolas (IJN)
14.30 - 17.30   Friederike Moltmann (IHPST)

Thursday, December 20
(Room Dussane)

09.00   Registration
09.25   Opening
09.30 - 10.20   Invited speaker Byeong-uk Yi (Toronto University)
Numeral classifiers and the mass/count distinction
10.20 - 11.00   Scott Grimm (Stanford University), Beth Levin (Stanford
University)
Who Has More Furniture? An Exploration of the Bases for Comparison

Coffee break

11.20 - 12.00   Peter Smith (University of Connecticut)
Count-mass nouns may not be mass after all
12.00 - 12.40   XuPing LI (CRLAO – CNRS/EHESS/INALCO)
Water and boy in Mandarin: an ontological distinction only

Lunch break

14.00 - 14.50   Invited speaker Almerindo Ojeda (UCDavis)
Countability and Grammatical Number: An Aristotelian View and Its Challenges
14.50 - 15.30   Roberto Zamparelli (University of Trento)
Countability, number and (in)definiteness in Chinese nominals
15.30 - 16.10   Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan University), Roberta Pires de Oliveira
(UFSC)
Bare Noun Phrases and Comparatives: a cross-linguistic perspective ?

Coffee break

16.30 - 17.10  Ana Muller (Universidade de São Paulo)
Individuation in a Bare-Nouns-Only Language
17.10 - 17.50   Yan LI (Université Paris Diderot)
L'interprétation de la sémantique de 'nom propre-men' en chinois
17.50 - 18.10   Catherine Mazodier (Université Paris Diderot)
« How Much Sideboob Is Too Much Sideboob? » Fonctionnement du nom,
quantification et/ou qualification : une analyse énonciative des emplois en
contexte du néologisme « sideboob »

18.30 - 20.30  Buffet: Wine and Cheese Reception (organised at the ENS)


Friday, December 21
(room Dussane)

09.10 - 10.00   Invited speaker David Barner (UCSD)
Experimental evidence for the compositionality of sortal concepts
10.00 - 10.40

Coffee break

11.00 - 11.40   Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan University), Alessandro Treves
(SISSA),
Ritwik Kulkarni (SISSA)
A statistical investigation into the crosslinguistic distribution of mass and
count nouns: 'morphosyntactic and semantic perspectives.'
11.40 - 12.20   Alan Bale (Concordia University), Brendan Gillon (McGill
University)
Re-examining the Mass-Count Distinction
12.20 - 13.00   Suzi Lima (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
The count/mass distinction in Yudja (Tupi): quantity judgment studies

Lunch break

14.20 - 15.10   Invited speaker Dana Cohen et Anne Zribi-Hertz (SFL/Paris8)
"Mass" vs. "Count" : on the distribution of labour between syntax and the
lexicon
15.10 - 15.50   Stefan Hinterwimmer (University of Osnabrueck)
A Comparison of Abstract and Concrete Mass Nouns in Terms of Their Interaction
with Vague Quantificational Determiners

Coffee break

16.10 - 17.00   Invited speaker Henry Laycock (Queen's University)
WORDS AND CONCEPTS: the 'object' concept and the 'matter' concept
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