call for papers 'PLurality, Unity, and Structure in Semantics'

[Friederike.Moltmann at UNIV-PARIS1.FR]

Call for papers:


PLURALITY, UNITY AND STRUCTURE IN SEMANTICS

One-day workshop organized within the Chaire d'Excellence
'Ontological Structure and Semantic Structure'

September 3, 2007


This workshop addresses questions concerning the unity,
plurality, and structure of objects of reference, such as
[1] do plurals (and perhaps mass NPs) stand for single collective entities
or do they, in some way, stand for several individuals at the same time?
[2] can semantics just do with mereological composition or what kind
of nonmereological composition or structure is needed and perhaps
independently justified?

Since the seminal work of Link, Boolos, and others, recent research in
linguistics and philosophy has undergone various shifts of interest
that this workshop aims to bring together. For example, recent
descriptive work on plurals and mass has concerned itself also with
their relation to kind-denoting NPs as well as with modifiers that
make reference to the part structure of an entity independently of the
categories of plural and mass (such as 'whole', 'together',
'completely'). Moreover, in dynamic semantics there has been a move
away from postulating plural entities in the models to
uses of concurrent and structured assignments. Finally, in philosophy,
new approaches to plurals without plural entities have been explored
as well as to questions concerning the structure and 'pluralization'
of complex or dependent objects such as  propositions, facts, states,
tropes, and 'qua objects'.
           This workshop welcomes submissions in any of those areas for a
thirty-minute talk. Please send an anonymous abstract (two pages
maximum including references), together with a separate page
containing title, author's  name, affiliation, and e-mail address to:

plurality at univ-paris1.fr

abstract submission deadline: June 30, 2007
notification of acceptance: July 20, 2007

time: September 3, 2007 (inbetween Ealing and CSSP)
location: Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, 45 rue d'Ulm,
             75005 Paris

Selection Committee:

Nicholas Asher (IRIT Toulouse, University of Texas, Austin), Manfred
Krifka (Humboldt University), Friederike Moltmann (IHPST, Paris), Rick
Nouwen (University of Utrecht), Gabriel Uzquiano (Oxford University),
Philippe Schlenker (IJN Paris, UCLA)

-- 
Friederike Moltmann
Chaire d'Excellence 'Ontological Structure and Semantic Structure'
http://www.semantics.univ-paris1.fr  (available soon)

Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences
et des Techniques (IHPST)
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