Empirical, Theoretical and Computational Approaches to Countability in Natural Language

Program

Invited Speakers

FJ Pelletier Lexical Nouns are both +Mass and +Count, and also neither +Mass nor +Count
Hagit Borer Playing your Cardinals Right
(Co-Author: Sarah Ouwayda)
Henriette de Swart Bare PPs – monolingual, multilingual and comparative explorations in countability

Accepted Papers

Authors Title
Paolo Acquaviva Countability and part structure in grammar and cognition
Marijke De Belder Flavors of n: On the Morphosyntax of Collective Mass Nouns
David Clausen, Alex Djalali, Scott Grimm, Sven Lauer, Tania Rojas-Esponda, and Beth Levin Extension, ontological type, and morphosyntactic class: Three ingredients of countability
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, Marcelo Ferreira Number Neutrality: From Pluralization to Unspecified Cardinality
Jenny Doetjes Mismatches in the Lexicon
M. Teresa Espinal Bare common count nouns and mass nouns
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri Generality in the Grammar of Countability
Daniel Harbour Aspect, Masshood, Pronominal Number, and the Integers
Aurelie Herbelot, Ann Copestake Underquantification: an application to mass terms
Gianina Iordachioaia, Elena Soare Countability across Categories: Layers of Pluractionality in the Romanian Supine
Xuping Li Counting and measure functions of classifiers in a classifier language
Mihaela Marchis On the default mass interpretation of relational adjectives in Romance
Suzi Lima Bare nouns and plurality in Yudja: mass nouns and the signature property
Mario Saltarelli The Grammaticalization of Countability: A non-lexical hypothesis
Gerhard Schaden Problematic Feature Mappings in Number
Tobias Stadtfeld Computational Countability
Martina Werner The grammaticalisation of countability: the quantificational role of suffixes illustrated by the diachrony of German masculine -er-nominalisations
Roberto Zamparelli Abstract Mass Nouns and Corpus-based Analyses
Niina Zhang Two Defining Properties of Countability