Converging Linguistics and Cognitive Science: Nominal Systems across Languages
Barcelona | September 14-16, 2009
This workshop aims at understanding linguistic
variation of nominal systems across several languages, bringing
together syntacticians and semanticists. The novelty of the workshop is
to explore noun phrases, their structure and interpretation, from a
comparative-syntax perspective and a formal semantics approach. Special
attention will be devoted to microvariation effects on the expression
of "number" and "definiteness".
The workshop will explore three different and related topics to be analysed in order to achieve a broad crosslinguistic understanding of nominal systems in natural languages, both from a morphosyntactic and a semantic perspective.
Topics:
- Bare nominals (singulars and plurals): their structure and interpretation. Number neutrality.
- Number: its structure and interpretation. Gender and Person.
- Definiteness: reference, specificity and genericity.
The workshop
Co-organized by:
M.Teresa Espinal
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
and
Klaus von Heusinger (Universtät Stuttgart)
The workshop will be hosted by the
of the
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
The attendance at the workshop is by invitation
