NaP2019 – Number and plurality: cross-linguistic variation in the nominal domain (part of LinG2)

Program

Wednesday
09:00-09:30	Registration
09:30-09:45	Introduction
09:45-10:45	Invited talk Gennaro Chierchia: Universal Mass/Count structures and their consequences for number marking
Coffee
11:10-11:50	Pritha Chandra and Preeti Kumari: Plural Licensing & Meso-variation
11:50-12:30	M. Rita Manzini: Morphosyntactic identity of count plural and mass N(P)s
Lunch break
14:00-14:40	Scott Grimm and Peter Guekguezian: Plurality and Determinancy in Western Armenian
14:40-15:20	Tacettin Turgay: Morphosyntax of Number in Turkish
Coffee
15:50-16:30	Peter R. Sutton and Hana Filip: Singular/Plural contrasts: The case of Informational Object Nouns
16:30-17:00	Lightning talks
17:00-18:00	Poster session Pavel Caha and Marcin Wągiel: Abstract counting and object counting across languages Jan Davatz and Elisabeth Stark: Francoprovençal (B): Galloromance varieties without mass vs. plural distinction? Brigitta R. Schvarcz and Borbála Nemes: Why do we need a general classifier in a mass/count language? Lola Türker: Uzbek and the Nominal Mapping Parameter: what counts as a bare noun in Uzbek? Heike Wiese: A cross-linguistic mass default for object-denoting nouns? Findings from a multilingual Berlin market Kata Wohlmuth and Brigitta R. Schvarcz: Classifiers are for count nouns: evidence from Hungarian
19:30	Dinner at Restaurant Kepler, Geismar Landstraße 11

Thursday
09:30-10:30	Invited talk Amy Rose Deal: Pluralization and Notional Mass Nouns: In search of semantic variation
10:30-11:10	Helena Guerra Vicente and Daiane Ramires: The expression of number in Kaiowá (Tupí-Guaraní): alternatives and implicatures
Coffee
11:40-12:20	Roumyana Pancheva: The Bulgarian 'count' form is semantically singular
12:20-13:00	Brigitta R. Schvarcz: Hungarian Nominalized Numerals are Plural Individuals
Lunch break
14:30-15:10	Marcin Wągiel: Countability and spatial integrity in partitives
15:10-15:50	Peter R. Sutton and Carol-Rose Little: The Finnish partitive in counting and measuring constructions
Coffee
16:10-16:50	Takanobu Nakamura: Distributivity within Nominal Domain and Kind Partition Readings
Concluding remarks