15.2941, Confs: Pragmatics/Semantics/Syntax/Brussels, Belgium

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Date: 15-Oct-2004
From: Guido Vanden Wyngaerd < guido.vandenwyngaerd at kubrussel.be >
Subject: Indefinites and Weak Quantifiers 
 

	
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 22:50:58
From: Guido Vanden Wyngaerd < guido.vandenwyngaerd at kubrussel.be >
Subject: Indefinites and Weak Quantifiers 
 
Indefinites and Weak Quantifiers 

Date: 06-Jan-2005 - 08-Jan-2005 
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact: Svetlana Vogeleer 
Contact Email: vogeleer at skynet.be 
Meeting URL: http://www.kvab.be/idf.htm

Linguistic Sub-Fields(s): Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The conference is organized by The Linguistic Society of Belgium & The
Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium of Arts and Sciences. The aim of the
conference is to make a contribution to the study of plural indefinites.
This involves, on the one hand, the specific properties of plural
indefinites which distinguish them from singular indefinites; on the other
hand, the expression of indefiniteness by means of weak quantifiers, also
known as indefinite, intersective, symmetric, existential or cardinal
quantifiers (e.g. two, some, several, many, etc.).

The conference is open to the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic approaches.
 Perspectives that account for cross-linguistic variation are strongly
encouraged.

The program for the conference is now available at http://www.kvab.be/idf.htm

Indefinites and Weak Quantifiers
Indéfinis et quantificateurs faibles
Programme

Thursday, January 6th/Jeudi 6 janvier
Institut Libre Marie Haps

8.30-9.00  
Registration/Accueil
9.00-9.15  
Welcome/Mot d'ouverture
9.15-10.05  
Edward KEENAN (UCLA).
A narrowly semantic characterization of the Definiteness Effect.
10.10-10.40  
Urtzi ETXEBERRIA (EHU-University of Basque Country/LEHIA). Basque
quantification and compositionality. Danièle GODARD (Paris-7),  Anne
ABEILLE (Paris 7), Olivier BONAMI (Paris-4) & Jesse TSENG (CNRS). L'analyse
syntaxique des SN de la forme de N.
10.45-11.15  
Mana KOBUCHI-PHILIP (Utrecht University). The identity of the domain of
quantification. Sophie HEYD (Université Nancy-2 & Université Strasbourg-2)
& Eric MATHIEU (University College London & Université de Nantes). The
semantics of de N structures, incorporation, and referential intentions.
11.15-11.45  
Coffee/Café
11.45-12.15  
Alex GROSU (Tel Aviv University). Should non-conservative (existential)
determiners be assumed by linguistic theory? Lucia TOVENA (Université de
Lille-3). N-words in averbal constructions.
12.20-12.50  
Beata GYURIS (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of
Sciences). Weak determiners in the contrastive topic constituent. Jacques
JAYEZ (ENS-LSH, Lyon). Combien est-on à plusieurs?
12.50-14.15 
 Lunch/Déjeuner
14.15-14.45  
Evangelia VLACHOU (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics). The ignorance flavor
of Free Choice items. Catherine SCHNEDECKER (Université Marc Bloch,
Strasbourg). Le déterminant certains et ses ''avatars'' (certain N/un
certain N; certains N/de certains N): approche diachronique.
14.50-15.20  
Jinyoung CHOI (University of Pennsylvania). Amwu (indifference)-based
polarity sensitive items in Korean. Dominique WILLEMS (Ghent University).
Quelque chose: syntaxe et référence. Un essai de mise en relation. 
15.25-15.55  
Alan BALE (McGill University, Montreal). Are collective readings partial
distributivity? Getting specific about group to group relations. Pierre
LARRIVEE (Aston University, Birmingham). Les forces et les faiblesses de
l'indéfini n'importe qui.
15.55-16.25  
Coffee/Café
16.25-16.55  
Arthur MERIN (University of Konstanz). Proportional quantifier
interpretations of indefinites and endocentric relevance relations.
Céline VAGUER (Université Paris-10). Dans les+numéral: un déterminant de
quantification faible?
17.00-17.30  
Richard ZUBER (CNRS). Some complex bare plurals. Sarah LEROY
(Paris-10-Nanterre). Sur certains quantificateurs nominaux métaphoriques en
français.
17.35-18.25  
Fred LANDMAN (University of Tel Aviv).
Indefinite time adverbials and in situ scope.

	Drink/Réception

Friday, January 7th/Vendredi 7 janvier
KVAB

8.30-9.00
Registration/Accueil
9.00-9.50
Greg CARLSON (University of Rochester). The meaningful bounds of incorporation.
9.50-10.05
Welcome/Mot d'ouverture
10.10-10.10.40
Carmen DOBROVIE-SORIN (Paris-7) & Tonia BLEAM (CNRS/Northwestern
University). A property analysis of existential bare singulars. 
Brenda LACA (Paris-8). Plural indefinites and pluractionals. 
10.45-11.15
Ariel COHEN (Ben Gurion University). The meaning of bare plurals: evidence
from Italian. 
Songnim KWON (UMR 7023/Paris-8) & Anne ZRIBI-HERTZ (Paris-8): Bare objects
in Korean : the sources of (in)definiteness effects.
11.15-11.45
Coffee/Café
11.45-12.15
Albert OOSTERHOF (Ghent University). Dutch bare plurals and van die-NPs:
Variable introduction and/or kind reference?
Sheila GLASBEY (School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham). Bare
plurals in object position: which verbs fail to give existential readings
and why?
12.20-12.50
Tonia BLEAM (CNRS/Northwestern University). Two cases of unambiguously
property denoting NPs in Spanish.
Louise McNALLY (Univeristat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona). Properties, entity
correlates of properties, and existentials.
12.50-14.15
Lunch/Déjeuner
14.15-15.05
Francis CORBLIN (Paris-4 Sorbonne).
La sémantique des numéraux et des para-numéraux.
15.10-15.40
Danièle VAN DE VELDE (Université Lille-3). Les indéfinis dans les phrases
existentielles.
Henriëtte de SWART (Utrecht University), Yoad WINTER (Computer Science,
Technion, Haifa) & Joost ZWARTS (Utrecht University). Bare predicate
nominals at the syntax-semantics interface: evidence from Dutch.
15.45-16.15
Anne CARLIER (Université de Valenciennes). L'argument davidsonien: un
critère de distinction entre les prédicats stage-level/individual-level?
Dalina KALLULLI (University of Vienna). On existential bare plural
''subjects'': they don't exist.
16.15-16.30
Coffee/Café
16.30-17.00
Fabienne MARTIN (Université Libre de Bruxelles). *Oh! Two particular
rabbits! Indéfinis spécifiques sélectifs et non-sélectifs.
Friederike MOLTMANN (University of Stirling). Bare nominalizations and
generalized reference to kinds.
17.05-17.35
Svetlana VOGELEER (ILMH & ULB), Liliane TASMOWSKI (KVAB & Universiteit
Antwerpen) & Sanda REINHEIMER (Universitatea din Bucuresti). La
pseudo-généricité de Des N. 
Guido VANDEN WYNGAERD (Katholieke Universiteit Brussel). Distributivity and
quantifier interaction.
17.40-18.30
Donka FARKAS (University of Santa Cruz). 
Indefinites and number

Conference dinner/Dîner

Saturday, January 8th/Samedi 8 janvier
 Institut Marie Haps

9.00-9.50     
Bart GEURTS (University of Nijmegen & Berlin). At least et al.
9.55-10.25
Carrie GILLON (University of British Columbia). The 'narrow scope'
behaviour of wide-scope indefinites: a new perspective. 
Martine COENE (University Antwerp). On the acquisition of the indefinite
article in Spanish and Italian.
10.30-11.00
Cornelia ENDRISS (Universität Potsdam) & Stefan HINTERWIMMER (Humbolt
Universität, Berlin). Quantification over events: the case of bare plurals
and plural definites.
Bart HOLLEBRANDSE (Rijks Universiteit Groningen) & Eric-Jan SMITS (Rijks
Universiteit Groningen). The acquisition of the weak-strong distinction. 
11.00-11.30
Coffee/Café
11.30-12.00
Veerle VAN GEENHOVEN (Universiteit Nijmegen). A pluractional analysis of
some imperfective constructions.
Irene KRÄMER (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen). Strong semantics, weak
pragmatics: children's interpretations of the quantifier many.
12.05-12.35
Jacqueline GUERON (Paris3-Sorbonne Nouvelle). Bare plurals and the
morphosyntax of nominal aspect.
Carla UMBACH (Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck).
Cataphoric indefinites.
12.40-13.30
Tanya REINHART (Tel Aviv University & Utrecht University).
Scope shift with numeral indefinites: syntax or processing?

Conference website: http://www.kvab.be/idf.htm
Registration: vogeleer at skynet.be



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