Abstracts are solicited for presentations which address theoretical or empirical issues (i) in the study of the mass/count distinction in the nominal domain as well as (ii) the parallel distinction(s) in the verbal domain.
Topics of particular interest include (but are not limited to):
- cognitive basis of countability, its grammatical manifestations and sources for the cross-linguistic variation in its encoding
- relations between count and non-count meanings, sort-shifting, type-shifting, and coercion
- vagueness and gradations of individuation, mess and neat mass nouns
- parallels and differences in the counting and measuring for noun and verb meanings
- corpus-based and psychological evidence for the distinction between count and non-count meanings
- computational modeling
Submission Details
Abstracts must be anonymous, no longer than 2 pages, in PDF format and sent via email to countability.ddorf.submit@gmail.com. Prospective speakers may submit abstracts for one single-authored and one co-authored paper. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. Abstracts should not include the authors’ names, and authors are asked to avoid self-references.
After submitting your abstract, please send a separate email to countability.ddorf.submit@gmail.com with the following information:
- Title of the talk
- Name of author(s)
- Affiliation(s)
- Address(es)
- Phone number(s)
- Email address(es)
Important dates
Abstract Submission Deadline: July 1, 2013
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2013
Workshop: September 16-17, 2013
Invited Speakers
David Barner (University of California at San Diego)
Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard University)
Jenny Doetjes (Leiden University)
Scott Grimm (Pompeu Fabra University)
Manfred Krifka (Humboldt University and Center for General Linguistics, Berlin)
Fred Landman (Tel Aviv University)
Susan Rothstein (Bar Ilan University)
Tobias Stadtfeld (Bochum University)
Roberto Zamparelli (University of Trento)
Conference Organizers
Hana Filip (Heinrich Heine University)
Christian Horn (Heinrich Heine University)
Contact
countability.ddorf@gmail.com
Submission of abstracts
countability.ddorf.submit@gmail.com
