29.4490, Calls: Semantics, Syntax/France

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Subject: 29.4490, Calls: Semantics, Syntax/France

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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 04:03:55
From: Elise Mignot [Elise.Mignot at sorbonne-universite.fr]
Subject: Nouns - between syntax and semantics

 
Full Title: Nouns - between syntax and semantics 

Date: 29-Mar-2019 - 30-Mar-2019
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Elise Mignot
Meeting Email: Elise.Mignot at sorbonne-universite.fr

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2019 

Meeting Description:

International conference
Sorbonne University (Paris, France)
29-30 March 2019

‘Nouns – between syntax and semantics’

Organized by Pierre Cotte, Elise Mignot and Julie Neveux (Sorbonne University)

This conference aims to investigate the characterization of the noun class.
What are the specific features of this part of speech? Is the demarcation of
the noun class self-evident?

Nouns, like other lexical classes, are characterized by grammatical properties
(morphosyntax, functions), developed in structuralist and generativist
approaches (among others), or by “notional” properties, developed by
traditional grammars, and, more recently, by cognitive grammars.

The two approaches (grammatical and notional) were already commented on by
Jespersen (The Philosophy of Grammar (1924, chapter X). Over time, authors
chose one or the other of the two options, but despite the great advances made
in each of these two fields, the relationship between syntax and semantics
remains problematic and little discussed. This conference aims to explore this
relationship, to propose a review of the different and sometimes
complementarity approaches, and to present recent research that sheds light on
the characteristics of this part of speech.


Call for Papers:

Questions to be addressed may include but are not limited to:

- What approaches can be used to characterize the noun class? What are the
relationships between these approaches?
- How can nominalisation processes help to define the noun class?
- Does the meaning of a noun account for its determination? 
- What are the relationships between semantic types (count and non-count
nouns, collectives, aggregates, etc.) and grammatical categories (such as
number, for instance)?
- What does the grammar of proper nouns / names tell us about the noun class?

All languages can be analysed and compared.

Proposals may relate to either the syntax or the semantics of nouns, but
preference will be given to those which articulate the two domains.

Keynote Speakers:

Paolo Acquaviva, University College Dublin
George Kleiber, Université de Strasbourg
John Payne, University of Manchester

Advisory Board:

Paolo Acquaviva, University College Dublin
Viviane Arigne, Université Paris XIII
Pierre Cotte, Sorbonne Université
Claude Delmas, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
Karl Gadelii, Sorbonne Université
Laure Gardelle, Université Grenoble Alpes
Georges Kleiber, Université de Strasbourg
Ronald Langacker, University of California, San Diego
Elise Mignot, Sorbonne Université
Franck Neveu, Sorbonne Université
Julie Neveux, Sorbonne Université
John Payne, University of Manchester
Catherine Resche, Sorbonne Université
Wilfrid Rotgé, Sorbonne Université
Viellard, Stéphane, Sorbonne Université
Anna Wierzbicka, University of Canberra

Deadline for submission: 31 January 2019
Notification of Acceptance: 22 February 2019

Proposals of around 300 words, together with a short bio, should be sent to
both Elise Mignot (Elise.Mignot at sorbonne-universite.fr) and Julie Neveux
(Julie.Neveux at sorbonne-universite.fr), in French or in English. 

The languages of the conference will be English and French.
Selected papers will be considered for publication.




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