call for papers, bare nouns: syntactic projections, and their interpretations

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Call for Papers
Bare nouns: syntactic projections, and their interpretation

The workshop on "Bare nouns: syntactic projections, and their interpretation"
will be held at the University Paris Diderot – Laboratoire de Linguistique
Formelle – UMR 7110 CNRS on 26th- 28th November 2009.
The workshop is organized by the bilateral projects Hubert Currein – Picasso
2007 – 2009 (resp. Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, LLF Université Paris Diderot, France)
and Acció integrada hispanofrancesa HF 2007-0039 (resp. Maria Teresa Espinal,
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain;
http://seneca.uab.cat/clt/activitats/congressos.html).

The workshop will consist of 10 talks by members of the above-mentioned
projects, and 10 selected talks (30 min. + 15 min. of discussion) bearing on
any aspects of the syntax and/or semantics of bare nominals including the
following: (i) Should we assume three distinct levels of syntactic
representation (DP, NumP and NP) or only one (NP) or two (DP and NP)? (ii) Do
we need to postulate little n and if so, do we still need Number as a
functional category or should we analyze Number as a feature? (iii) What are
the parameters that are relevant for the crosslinguistic variation in the use
of bare nominals? (iv) Should classifiers be viewed as counterparts of Number
or rather as counterparts of Gender?

The languages of the workshop are English and French.

Speakers:

Claire Beyssade (Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS, Paris)
Patricia Cabredo-Hofherr (SFL – UMR 7023, CNRS, Université Paris Vincennes – St.
Denis)
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (LLF – UMR 7110 CNRS, Université Paris Diderot)
Marta Donazzan (LLF – UMR 7110 CNRS & Université Paris Vincennes – St. Denis)
Alain Kihm (LLF – UMR 7110 CNRS, Université Paris Diderot)
Brenda Laca (Université Paris Vincennes – St. Denis & SFL – UMR 7023, CNRS)
Alexandru Mardale (INALCO de Paris, ECO & LLF – UMR 7110 CNRS)
Jaume Mateu (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Maria Teresa Espinal (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Organizers:

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

Selection Committee

Claire Beyssade (Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS, Paris)
Patricia Cabredo-Hofherr (SFL – UMR 7023, CNRS, Université Paris Vincennes – St.
Denis)
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (LLF – UMR 7110 CNRS, Université Paris Diderot)
Brenda Laca (Université Paris Vincennes – St. Denis & SFL – UMR 7023, CNRS)
Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Maria Teresa Espinal (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)



Submissions

Authors are required to submit two abstracts, an anonymous one (for selection)
and a non-anonymous one (for diffusion and booklet of abstracts).
Submissions should preferentially be sent in PDF format (but DOC, RTF and
POSTSCRIPT are also accepted). Abstracts should not exceed two pages (examples,
references and figures included). Pages should have a 2 cm margin on all four
sides (measured on A4 paper). Font type: Times New Roman, 12 pt. Line spacing:
single. The first line of the abstract should contain the title of the paper in
boldface, the second line the author's name(s), the third line the
affiliation(s) and the fourth line the e-mail address(es). A blank line should
be left between the title lines and the abstract text.

Important : An author can submit a maximum of two abstracts: one as a single
author and another one as a co-author; or two as a co-author.

Abstracts must be submitted via email before September 1, 2009 to the following
address:

mardale at linguist.jussieu.fr

Important dates
Workshop : November 26 – 28, 2009
Deadline for submission : September 1, 2009
Notification of acceptance : October 1, 2009
Programm : October 15, 2009

Please direct all inquiries to:

mardale at linguist.jussieu.fr


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