Empirical, Theoretical and Computational Approaches to Countability in Natural Language

Program: Time Schedule

Date Time Speaker Talk  
21.09.2010 19:00 - Warming Up at "Una Mas" (Tapas Restaurant to celebrate Spain's victory in the World Cup despite Germany being the more entertaining team)  
22.09.2010 10:00 Tibor Kiss Introduction to the Conference and Announcements  
  10:30 Paolo Acquaviva Countability and part structure in grammar and cognition Talk 1
  11:15 Scott Grimm, Alex Djalali Extension, ontological type, and morphosyntactic class: Three ingredients of countability Talk 2
  12:00 Tobias Stadtfeld Determining the Countability of English and German Nouns Talk 3
  12:45 - Lunch Break  
  14:00 Hagit Borer (with Sarah Ouwayda) Playing your Cardinals Right IT
  15:00 - Break  
  15:30 Gerhard Schaden Problematic Feature Mappings in Number Talk 4
  16:15 Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (with Marcelo Ferreira) Number Neutrality: From Pluralization to Unspecified Cardinality Talk 5
  17:00 Niina Zhang Two Defining Properties of Countability Talk 6
  17:45 - End of Day 1  
23.09.2010 09:00 Xu-Ping Li Counting and measure functions of classifiers in a classifier language Talk 7
  09:45 Suzi Lima Bare nouns and plurality in Yudja: mass nouns and the signature property Talk 8
  10:30 - Break  
  11:00 Henriette de Swart (with Bert Le Bruyn and Joost Zwarts) Monolingual, multilingual and comparative explorations in countability IT
  12:00 Roberto Zamparelli Abstract Mass Nouns and Corpus-based Analyses Talk 9
  12:45 - Lunch Break  
  14:00 Aurelie Herbelot Underquantification: an application to mass terms Talk 10
  14:45 M. Teresa Espinal Bare common count nouns and mass nouns Talk 11
  15:30 Jenny Doetjes Mismatches in the Lexicon Talk 19
  16:15 - Break  
  16:45 Mihaela Marchis On the default mass interpretation of relational adjectives in Romance Talk 13
  17:30 Gianina Iordachioaia (with Elena Soare) Countability across Categories: Layers of Pluractionality in the Romanian Supine Talk 14
  18:15 - End of Day 2  
  19:00 - Conference Dinner at "Yamas"  
24.09.2010 09:00 Daniel Harbour Aspect, Masshood, Pronominal Number, and the Integers Talk 16
  09:45 - Break  
  10:15 Martina Werner The grammaticalisation of countability: the quantificational role of suffixes illustrated on the diachrony of German masculine -er-nominalisations Talk 18
  11:00 Francis Jeffry Pelletier Lexical Nouns are both +Mass and +Count, and also neither +Mass nor +Count IT
  12:00 Mario Saltarelli The Grammaticalization of Countability: A non-lexical hypothesis Talk 17
  12:45   General Discussion and Closing Comments  
  13:30 - End of Day 3