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