The aim of this colloquium is to provide a platform of exchange between \;linguists\, philosophers and psychologists\, working the different aspects of the \;mass/count distinction. Such a resolutely interdisciplinary approach is indeed \;necessary to fully apprehend the new questions that are presently arising in \;connection to the mass/count distinction. This multidisciplinary conference \;aspires to move this scientific debate forward\, and contribute to the evolution \;of current methodology.
A more detailed description is available on the dedicated website:
http://mass-count.sciencesconf.org/
Wednesday\, December 19
Tutorial on the mass/count distinction:
11.00 - 13.00 \; David Nicolas (IJN)
14.30 - 17.30 \; Friederike Moltmann (IHPST)
Thursday\, December 20
(Room Dussane)
09.00 \; Registration
09.25 \; Opening
09.30 - 10.20 \; Invited speaker Byeong-uk Yi (Toronto University)
Numeral classifiers and the mass/count distinction
10.20 - 11.00 \; Scott Grimm (Stanford University)\, Beth Levin (Stanford \;University)
Who Has More Furniture? An Exploration of the Bases for Comparison
Coffee break
11.20 - 12.00 \; Peter Smith (University of Connecticut)
Count-mass nouns may not be mass after all
12.00 - 12.40 \; XuPing LI (CRLAO &ndash\; CNRS/EHESS/INALCO)
Water and boy in Mandarin: an ontological distinction only
Lunch break
14.00 - 14.50 \; Invited speaker Almerindo Ojeda (UCDavis)
Countability and Grammatical Number: An Aristotelian View and Its Challenges
14.50 - 15.30 \; Roberto Zamparelli (University of Trento)
Countability\, number and (in)definiteness in Chinese nominals
15.30 - 16.10 \; Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan University)\, Roberta Pires de Oliveira \;(UFSC)
Bare Noun Phrases and Comparatives: a cross-linguistic perspective ?
Coffee break
16.30 - 17.10 \;Ana Muller (Universidade de Sã\;o Paulo)
Individuation in a Bare-Nouns-Only Language
17.10 - 17.50 \; Yan LI (Université\; Paris Diderot)
L'interpré\;tation de la sé\;mantique de 'nom propre-men' en chinois
17.50 - 18.10 \; Catherine Mazodier (Université\; Paris Diderot)
«\; How Much Sideboob Is Too Much Sideboob? »\; Fonctionnement du nom\, \;quantification et/ou qualification : une analyse é\;nonciative des emplois en \;contexte du né\;ologisme «\; sideboob »\;
18.30 - 20.30 \;Buffet: Wine and Cheese Reception (organised at the ENS)
Friday\, December 21
(room Dussane)
09.10 - 10.00 \; Invited speaker David Barner (UCSD)
Experimental evidence for the compositionality of sortal concepts
10.00 - 10.40
Coffee break
11.00 - 11.40 \; Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan University)\, Alessandro Treves \;(SISSA)\, \;Ritwik Kulkarni (SISSA)
A statistical investigation into the crosslinguistic distribution of mass and \;count nouns: 'morphosyntactic and semantic perspectives.'
11.40 - 12.20 \; Alan Bale (Concordia University)\, Brendan Gillon (McGill \;University)
Re-examining the Mass-Count Distinction
12.20 - 13.00 \; Suzi Lima (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
The count/mass distinction in Yudja (Tupi): quantity judgment studies
Lunch break
14.20 - 15.10 \; Invited speaker Dana Cohen et Anne Zribi-Hertz (SFL/Paris8)
"Mass" vs. "Count" : on the distribution of labour between syntax and the \;lexicon
15.10 - 15.50 \; Stefan Hinterwimmer (University of Osnabrueck)
A Comparison of Abstract and Concrete Mass Nouns in Terms of Their Interaction \;with Vague Quantificational Determiners
Coffee break
16.10 - 17.00 \; Invited speaker Henry Laycock (Queen's University\, Canada)
WORDS AND CONCEPTS: the 'object' concept and the 'matter' concept
Scientific committee
\nAlexandra Arapinis (ENS\, IHPST)\, David Barner (UCSD)\, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin \;(CNRS\, Paris 7 University)\, Jenny Doetjes (Leiden University)\, Friederike \;Moltmann (CNRS\, IHPST)\, David Nicolas (CNRS\, IJN)\, Almerindo Ojeda (UCDavis)\, \;Susan Rothstein (Bar Ilan University)\, Elena Soare (Paris 8 University)\, \;Fayssal Tayalati (Lille 3 University)\, Lucia M. Tovena (Paris 7 University)\, \;Daniè\;le van de Velde (Lille 3 University)\, Beyon-Uk Yi (Toronto University)\, \;Anne Zribi-Herts (Paris 8 University)
Organising \;committee
Alexandra Arapinis (ENS\, IHPST)\, Friederike Moltmann (CNRS\, IHPST)\, Lucia M. \;Tovena (Paris 7 University)