March 21st-22nd, 2019
Sala d’actes de la Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres (B7/1056)
UAB
Workshop funded by the Research Project “The interpretation of functional categories (FFI2017-82547-P)” (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad)
Invited speakers
Giuliana Giusti (U. of Venice)
Rick Nouwen (Utrecht U.)
Ileana Paul (U. of Western Ontario)
Anna Szabolcsi (NYU)
Organizers
M. Teresa Espinal (UAB-ICREA Academia) | Teresa.Espinal@uab.cat
Xavier Villalba (UAB) | Xavier.Villalba@uab.cat
Dept. de Filologia Catalana and Centre de Lingüística Teòrica
More information
https://sites.google.com/view/functionalcategoriesnominal/home
Program
March 21
9.30-9.45h
Presentation
9.45-10.45h
Giuliana Giusti (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
Feature merger and feature realization. A unifying approach to the NP/DP dispute
10.45-11.15h
Coffee break
11.15-12h
Sonia Cyrino (UNICAMP) & M. Teresa Espinal (UAB)
Plural marking in the nominal domain in Romance
12-12.45h
Andreas Trotzke (University of Konstanz / CNRS-IKER)
Discourse particles in the nominal domain
12.45-13.30h
Susagna Tubau (UAB)
Towards accounting for the puzzling asymmetries between nothing and no N
13.30-15h
Lunch
15-15.45h
Feifei Li (UAB)
The interpretation of argumental negative quantifiers as answers to negative questions in Mandarin Chinese
15.45-16.30h
Eloi Puig-Mayenco (University of Reading) Informing the nature of Negative Concord Items: a take from Multilingualism
16.30-17h
Pause
17-18h
Ileana Paul (University of Western Ontario)
D detection in Austronesian
20h. Social Dinner:
March 22
9:30-10.30h
Rick Nouwen (Universiteit Utrecht)
Numerals, plurality and number: the case of negative cardinals
10.30-11hh
Coffee break
11.00-11.45h
Urtzi Etxeberria (CNRS-IKER) & Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago)
A unified analysis of Spanish algún/algunos: referential vagueness, plurality, and NP-anaphora
11.45-12.15h
Olga Borik (UNED)
What can possessives and demonstratives tell us about definiteness in Russian
12.15-13h
Lisa Brunetti (CNRS-Paris Diderot), Laia Mayol (UPF) & Xavier Villalba (UAB)
Anaphoric distance, monotonicity, and word order choices in Catalan
13-15h
Lunch
15-15.45h
Evripidis Tsiakmakis
The Greek definite article and referentiality
15.45-16.30h
Dària Serés (UAB)
The generic interpretation of Russian bare nominals
16.30-16.45h
Pause
16.45-17.45
Anna Szabolcsi (NYU)
Propositional Quantifiers in The Nominal Domain, With A Case Study in Free Choice
17.45-18h
Concluding remarks
