WORKSHOP ON COUNTABILITY

Program

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Monday, September 16                 

Time

Speaker

Affiliation

Email

Title

Abstract

Handouts

09:00- 09:25

Breakfast

09:25 -09:30

Opening

09:30 -10:20

Fred Landman 

Tel Aviv University

landman@post.tau.ac.il

Iceberg semantics (invited talk)

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10:20-11:10

Scott Grimm

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

scott.grimm@upf.edu

Degrees of countability: A mereotopological approach (invited talk)

PDF

PDF

11:10 -11:30 

Coffee break

11:30 -12:20

David Barner

University of California, San Diego

barner@ucsd.edu

The acquisition of grammatical number and countability (invited talk)

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PDF

12:20-13:00

Sarah Ouwayda

University of Southern California and Université de Genève

ouwaydasarah@gmail.com

Re-quantity judgment: All mass DPs can count, all count DPs must

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13:00-14:00

Lunch

14:00-14:50

Roberto Zamparelli

Università degli Studi di Trento

roberto.zamparelli@unitn.it

Abstract mass nouns and mass-count conversion (invited talk)

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PDF

14:50-15:30

Timotheus Vermote

Universiteit Gent

Timotheus.Vermote@ugent.be

Fruits and vegetables in French: A fresh look on systematic mass-count flexibility 

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PDF

15:30- 15:50

Coffee break

15:50-16:40

Tobias Stadtfeld

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

stadtfeld@linguistics.rub.de

Annotating the countability of English nouns on a large scale (invited talk)

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16:40-17:30

Henry Laycock

Queen’s University

laycockh@queensu.ca

What’s wrong with the standard semantic model for mass nouns? (invited talk)

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19:30

Conference Dinner
Place: Im Goldenen Ring (Düsselstube), Burgplatz 21, 40213 Düsseldorf
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Tuesday, September 17

Time

Speaker

Affiliation

Email

Title

Abstract

Handouts

09:00-09:30

Breakfast

09:30-10:20

Susan Rothstein

Bar-Ilan University

Susan.Rothstein@biu.ac.il

Counting, measuring, and the count/mass distinction (invited talk)

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PDF

10:20-11:10

Jenny Doetjes

Universiteit Leiden

J.Doetjes@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Quantity systems and the count/mass distinction (invited talk)

PDF

PDF

11:10-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-12:10

Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin

LLF-CNRS, Université Paris 7

sorin.carmen2@gmail.com

Most: The view from mass quantification

PDF

PDF

12:10-12:50

Alice ter Meulen

Université de Genève

alicetermeulen@gmail.com

Determiners, indexical inference and aspectual adverbs

PDF

PPT

12:50-14:00

Lunch

14:00-14:40

Mike Pham

University of Chicago

mike.tt.pham@gmail.com

Classifiers and class terms: How to have your subkind and count it too

PDF

PDF

14:40-15:20

Agata Renans

Universität Potsdam

renans@uni-potsdam.de

Types of common nouns in Ga

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PDF

15:20-15:40

Coffee break

15:40-16:20

Charles Lam

Purdue University

charleslam@purdue.edu

Reduplication as summation

PDF

PDF

16:20-17:10

Manfred Krifka

Humboldt-Universität and ZAS, Berlin

mkrifka@yahoo.com

Measuring and counting in the nominal and in the verbal domain (invited talk)

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