Programme

Barcelona | September 14-16, 2009

 

Monday, September 14: Bare nominals (singulars and plurals): their structure and interpretation. Number neutrality.

 

9.45-10.00 Opening  

10.00-11.15

Gennaro Chierchia

The nominal mapping parameter ten years later

11.15-11.30

coffee

 

11.30-12.45

Veneeta Dayal

Bare singulars: arguments, incorporated nominals and compounds

 

 

 

 

13.00-14.30

lunch

 

 

 

 

14.30-15.45

M. Teresa Espinal & Louise McNally

The interpretation of bare nominals in Catalan and Spanish

15.45-16.00

tea

 

16.00-17.15

Carmen Dobrovie Sorin

Number neutrality
 

17.15-17.30

tea

 

17.30-18.45

Lisa Lai Shen Cheng

"Bare" nouns in Chinese and Bantu

 

Tuesday, September 15: Number: its structure and interpretation. Gender and Person.

 

10.00-11.15

Artemis Alexiadou

Form-meaning asymmetries in the Noun Phrase: the case of Number
 

11.15-11.30

coffee

 

11.30-12.45

Alain Kihm

Relevance vs. 'real world' quantity in the (non)marking of plurality: a morpho-semantic approach

 

 

 

 

13.00-14.30

lunch

 

 

 

 

14.30-15.45

Henriette de Swart

Semantics and pragmatics of plurality

15.45-16.00

tea

 

16.00-17.15

Abdelkader Fassi Fehri

Kinds of Number and Gender: syntax and interpretation

17.15-17.30

tea

 

17.30-18.45

Denis Delfitto

On the (in)dependence of Person

 

Wednesday, September 16: Definiteness: reference, specificity and genericity.

 

10.00-11.15

Hans Kamp

Expressing and communicating thought and the epistemic specificity of definite and indefinite Noun Phrases

11.15-11.30

coffee

 

11.30-12.45

Giuseppe Longobardi

How universal is DP?

 

 

 

13.00-14.30

lunch

 

 

 

 

14.30-15.45

Carme Picallo

Determiners as partitives

15.45-16.00

tea

 

16.00-17.15

Roberto Zamparelli

Pronominal Modifiers

17.15-17.30

tea

 

17.30-18.45

Klaus von Heusinger

The domains of specificity

18.45 Closing of the Workshop  

 

Please note that a workshop on Prosody and Meaning  is directly following our workshop:

Workshop on Prosody and Meaning
Barcelona | September 17-18, 2009

http://prosodia.uab.cat/prosodyandmeaning/home/index.php

Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaCentre de Lingüística TeòricaMinisterio de ciencia e innovacionagaur
Universität StuttgartInstitut für Linguistik/GermanistikIncremental Specification in Progress
DFG Fritz Thyssen StiftungWolkswagen StiftungNereus Research Network