LINGUIST List 21.3368 Sun Aug 22 2010 Confs: Comp Ling, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics/Germany Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Jan Strunk, Empirical, Theoretical and Computational Approaches to Countability in Natural Language Message 1: Empirical, Theoretical and Computational Approaches to Countability in Natural Language Date: 20-Aug-2010 From: Jan Strunk <strunklinguistics.rub.de> Subject: Empirical, Theoretical and Computational Approaches to Countability in Natural Language E-mail this message to a friend Empirical, Theoretical and Computational Approaches to Countability in Natural Language Date: 22-Sep-2010 - 24-Sep-2010 Location: Bochum, Germany Contact: Tibor Kiss Contact Email: countability2010linguistics.rub.de Meeting URL: http://www.linguistics.rub.de/countability2010/ Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax Meeting Description: Empirical, Theoretical and Computational Approaches to Countability in Natural Language A conference organized by the Linguistics Department (Sprachwissenschaftliches Institut) of Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. Ruhr-Universität Bochum, September 22­-24, 2010 Call for Participation Registration: If you intend to participate, please register via the following web form: http://www.linguistics.rub.de/countability2010/registration.php The conference fee will be 30 ?, to be paid on site. Program: 21/09/2010 19:00 Warming Up at ''Una Mas'' Day 1 22/09/2010 10:00 Tibor Kiss: Introduction to the conference and announcements 10:30 Paolo Acquaviva: Countability and Part Structure in Grammar and Cognition 11:15 Scott Grimm, Alex Djalali: Extension, Ontological Type, and Morphosyntactic Class: Three Ingredients of Countability 12:00 Tobias Stadtfeld: Determining the Countability of English and German nouns 12:45 Lunch Break 14:00 Hagit Borer (with Sarah Ouwayda): Playing your Cardinals Right (Invited talk) 15:00 Break 15:30 Gerhard Schaden: Problematic Feature Mappings in Number 16:15 Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin: Number Neutrality: From Pluralization to Unspecified Cardinality 17:00 Niina Zhang: Two Defining Properties of Countability 17:45 End of Day 1 Day 2 23/09/2010 09:00 Xu-Ping Li: Counting and Measure Functions of Classifiers in a Classifier Language 09:45 Suzi Lima: Bare nouns and plurality in Yudja: Mass Nouns and the Signature Property 10:30 Break 11:00 Henriette de Swart (with Bert Le Bruyn and Joost Zwarts): Monolingual, Multilingual and Comparative Explorations in Countability (Invited talk) 12:00 Roberto Zamparelli: Abstract Mass Nouns and Corpus-based Analyses 12:45 Lunch Break 14:00 Aurelie Herbelot: Underquantification: An Application to Mass Terms 14:45 M. Teresa Espinal: Bare Common Count Nouns and Mass Nouns 15:30 Marijke De Belder: Flavours of n: On the Morphosyntax of Collective Mass Nouns 16:15 Break 16:45 Mihaela Marchis: On the Mass/plural Interpretation of Relational Adjectives and de Phrases in Romance 17:30 Gianina Iordachioaia (with Elena Soare): Countability across Categories: Layers of Pluractionality in the Romanian Supine 18:15 End of Day 2 19:00 Conference Dinner, Location TBA Day 3 24/09/2010 09:00 Abdelkader Fassi Fehri: Generality in the Grammar of Countability 09:45 Daniel Harbour: Aspect, masshood, Pronominal Number, and the Integers 10:30 Break 11:00 Francis Jeffry Pelletier: Lexical Nouns are Both +mass and +count, and also Neither +mass nor +count (Invited talk) 12:00 Lunch Break 13:00 Mario Saltarelli: The Grammaticalization of Countability: A Non-lexical Hypothesis 13:45 Martina Werner: The Grammaticalisation of Countability: The Quantificational Role of Suffixes Illustrated on the Diachrony of German Masculine -er-nominalisations 14:30 - Jenny Doetjes: Mismatches in the Lexicon 15:15 - General discussion and closing comments 16:00 End of Day 3 Conference Organizers: - Tibor Kiss - Tobias Stadtfeld - Antje Müller - Katja Keßelmeier - Claudia Roch - Jan Strunk On behalf of the conference organizers: Jan Strunk Sprachwissenschaftliches Institut Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany strunklinguistics.rub.de Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 22-Aug-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.