LINGUIST List 22.2922

Mon Jul 18 2011

Confs: Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/France

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        1.     Patricia Cabredo Hofherr , Workshop on Impersonal Pronouns

Message 1: Workshop on Impersonal Pronouns
Date: 18-Jul-2011
From: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr <pcabredouniv-paris8.fr>
Subject: Workshop on Impersonal Pronouns
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Workshop on Impersonal Pronouns

Date: 20-Sep-2011 - 20-Sep-2011 Location: Paris, France Contact: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/Appel-a-communications,1013.html

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Semantics; Syntax

Meeting Description:

The workshop will be held on Tue 20 Sept 2011, at the Salle de conférences,CNRS Pouchet, 59 rue Pouchet, 75017 Paris.

Invités / Invited speakers:

- Denis Creissels (DDL - Lyon)- Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz)

The workshop focuses on the morphological, syntactic and semanticproperties of impersonal pronouns allowing human reference such as Englishone, they, you, French on, ils, tu, ça, Germanic man/men.

Atelier / Workshop

le mardi 20 septembre / Tue 20 Sept 2011 Salle de conférences, CNRS Pouchet, 59 rue Pouchet, 75017 Paris métro Guy Môquet ou Brochant (ligne 13)

Program

9h30 -10h30 Invited speaker: Jim McCloskey (UCSC) Irish Impersonals in Context

10h30-11h Pause café

11h-11h40 n-Usa Phimsawat (Newcastle) & Anders Holmberg (Newcastle) Generic Pronouns in Thai

11h40-12h20 Abdelkader Fassi Fehri (KAICAL, Riyad & Linguistic Society of Morocco, Rabat) Generic silent subjects, topicality, and voice

12h20-14h Déjeuner

14-15h Invited speaker: Denis Creissels (DDL - Lyon) Impersonal pronouns and coreference

15h-15h40 Kalyanamalini Sahoo (Hyderabad) The Generic Subject Pronoun in Oriya

15h40-16h Pause café

16-16h40 Milan Rezac (UMR 7023 CNRS -Paris 8) & Mélanie Jouitteau (UMR 7110 CNRS - Paris 7) The nature of French 'impersonal' indexicals tu and on

16h40-1720 Laur Anne Johnsen (Neuchâtel & Fribourg) Mais qui sont-ils ? Sur la référence du pronom ils à valeur collective

17h20-18h00 Evie Coussé (Ghent University, University of Gothenburg) Göst Ericson (University of Gothenburg) & Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp) Impersonal pronouns in Swedish and Dutch. A comparative study of man and men

En réserve / alternate :

-Sarah Zobel (Göttingen) Arguments for a two-operator analysis of impersonal pronouns in modal sentences

Journée organisée par le projet / We gratefully acknowledge the support of the project Calcul de la référence nominale : langues avec et sans articles de la Fédération ''Typologie et universaux du langage'' (CNRS FR 2559), 2010-2013


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