LINGUIST List 17.2925

Fri Oct 06 2006

Confs: Typology/Italy

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Message 1: Nouns Cross-linguistically
Date: 06-Oct-2006
From: Giuliana Fiorentino <giuliana.fiorentinounimol.it>
Subject: Nouns Cross-linguistically



Nouns Cross-linguistically

Date: 22-Jun-2007 - 23-Jun-2007 Location: Campobasso, Italy Contact: Giuliana Fiorentino Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://serviziweb.unimol.it/pls/unimol/consultazione.mostra_pagina?id_pagina=2585

Linguistic Field(s): Typology

Meeting Description:

The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany) and the University of Molise, (Italy), are jointly organizing a Symposium on

Nouns Cross-linguistically

to be held at Campobasso, University of Molise, June, 22-23, 2007.

The focus of the Symposium is on the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of nouns, nominalizations and other strategies that are used by languages in order to 'name' things and events. Our aim is to adopt a broad and interdisciplinary approach to this topic.


List of participants:

- Bernard Comrie, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Nominalizations between verbs and nouns

- Giuliana Fiorentino, University of Molise Nouns, nominalizations and complex NP between speech and writing: a syntactic approach

- Livio Gaeta, University of Naples, Federico II Action nouns: at a cross-road of morphology, syntax and semantics

- David Gil, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Nouns May Belong to Different Syntactic Categories in Different Languages

- Martin Haspelmath, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Substantivizations cross-linguistically

- John Hawkins, University of Cambridge Nouns and Noun Phrases: Grammatical Variation and Language processing

- Kees Hengeveld, University of Amsterdam Non-prototypical noun phrases

- Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, University of Stockholm Proper-name compounds: meanings and uses

- Romano Lazzeroni, University of Pisa Title to be announced

- Christian Lehmann, University of Erfurt Nominal Concepts

- Andrej Malchukov, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Constraining nominalization: functional and structural factors in interaction

- Johanna Mattissen, University of Cologne Morphological Complexity in Nouns

- Frans Plank, University of Konstanz About nameworthiness

- Jan Rijkhoff, University of Aarhus Directionality in the grammaticalization of noun modifiers

- Frank Seifart, University of Bochum Shape-based noun classes in Miraña (North West Amazon)

For further information, consult the following websites:

http://serviziweb.unimol.it/pls/unimol/consultazione.mostra_pagina?id_pagina=2585

and soon: http://www.eva.mpg.de/english/events.htm

Organizers: Bernard Comrie comrieunimol.it