LINGUIST List 22.4379 Fri Nov 04 2011 Confs: Cognitive Sci, Morphologym Semantics, Syntax/France 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.     Alda Mari , Genericity: From Morphology to Cognition Message 1: Genericity: From Morphology to Cognition Date: 02-Nov-2011 From: Alda Mari <alda.mariens.fr> Subject: Genericity: From Morphology to Cognition E-mail this message to a friend Genericity: From Morphology to Cognition Short Title: GENIUS III Date: 05-Dec-2011 - 06-Dec-2011 Location: Paris, France Contact: Alda Mari Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://geniusconference.org/ Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Morphology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax Meeting Description: Genericity: Interpretation and Uses III Genericity: From Morphology to Cognition http://geniusconference.org/ We are pleased to announce the third Genius Conference, which will take place at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, on December 5-6, 2011. The third edition of GENIUS: Genericity: Interpretation and Uses Conference will bring together theoreticians from morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and cognition around the theme of genericity. This third conference on generics aims to: (i) Bring together works on different languages, reconsidering the ontological questions linked to genericity. Should one postulate species in addition to particular individuals? What differences are there between a species and a set of individuals? Between a species and a set of properties? (ii) Examine the relations between genericity, mass nouns and plurality. (iii) Re-evaluate the relevance of the distinction between ‘GEN’ and ‘HAB’, states and events, and the distinction between stage-level and individual-level properties. (iv) Articulate questions of syntax and semantics from a pragmatic perspective. In many languages, no specific linguistic form is dedicated to expressing genericity. The conference will gather work identifying the conditions under which a sentence is construed generically, articulating research on the structure of information, discourse, and prosody, reconsidering the distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments, and examining under which conditions genericity might be independent of inductive inferences. (v) Articulate the question of exceptions, in particular at the interface of semantics and pragmatics (addressing the relation between genericity and free choice, genericity and vagueness, and contextual interpretation more generally). Invited Speakers: Nicholas Asher (IRIT / CNRS) Ariel Cohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Yael Greenberg (Bar Ilan University) Sarah-Jane Leslie (Princeton University) Alice ter Meulen (University of Geneva) Sandeep Prasada (CUNY, NY) Anne Zribi-Hertz (Paris VIII) Roberto Zamparelli (University of Trento) Registration: The registration is free. Registration page: http://geniusconference.org/?page_id=43 The conference is sponsored by the ANR Project GENIUS: Genericity Interpretation and Uses. Program Day 1, Monday 5 December, 2011 9h00-10h00 Invited Speaker: Alice ter Meulen, University of Geneva Generics in Information Structure: Exceptions versus counterexamples 10h10-10h40 Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, University of Crete To distribute and to make an exception: Genericity and universal quantification in Greek 10h40-11h00 Coffee Break 11h00-11h40 James Hampton, City University London Generics as reflecting conceptual knowledge 11h40-12h40 Invited Speaker: Sandeep Prasada, CUNY, NY Mechanisms for characterizing kinds and classes 12h40-14h00 Lunch 14h00-15h00 Invited Speaker: Anne Zribi-Hertz, Universite Paris-8/SFL, Paris-8/CNRS (based on joint work with Loïc Jean-Louis, Universite Paris-8) LA- and LÉ in Matinikè: genericity markers in the DP? 15h00-15h40 Olga Borik, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & M.Teresa Espinal, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona On reference to kinds in Spanish and Russian 15h40-16h00 Coffee Break 16h00-16h40 Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, CNRS UMR 7023 - Paris 8 Lexical genericity: R-impersonal pronouns 16h40-17h40 Invited Speaker: Roberto Zamparelli, University of Trento Building (sub)kinds 17h45 Reception Day 2, Tuesday 6 December, 2011 9h00-10h00 Invited Speaker: Yael Greenberg, Bar Ilan University Genericity and (non)accidentalness 10h00-10h40 Christian Retore, LaBRI, INRIA, Universite de Bordeaux 1 Specimens: ''most of'' generic NPs in a contextually flexible type theory 10h40-11h00 Coffee Break 11h00-11h40 Svetlana Vogeleer, Institut Libre Marie Haps & Université Libre de Bruxelles Bare habituals with indefinite singular objects and the perfective viewpoint aspect 11h40-12h40 Invited Speaker: Nicholas Asher, CNRS - IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier More truths about generic truth 12h40-14h00 Lunch 14h00-15h00 Invited Speaker: Sarah-Jane Leslie, Princeton University Generics as Cognitive Defaults 15h00-15h40 Matt Teichman, University of Chicago Is There a Generic Quantifier? 15h40-16h00 Coffee Break 16h00-16h40 Sascha Alexeyenko, Institute of Cognitive Science,University of Osnabrück Nominal Generics: Past and Present 16h40-17h40 Invited Speaker: Ariel Cohen, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Generics as modals Registration The registration if free. 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