Website of the colloquium:

http://mass-count.sciencesconf.org/

December 19, 2012:

Tutorial by Friederike Moltmann (IHPST) & David Nicolas (IJN): The Mass-Count Distinction in Philosophy and Linguistic Semantics

December 20-21, 2012:

Colloquium

Invited speakers

• David Barner (UCSD)
• Henry Laycock (Queen's University)
• Almerindo Ojeda (UCDavis)
• Byeon-uk Yi (Toronto University)
• Anne Zribi-Herts (Université Paris 8)

Contributed talks

• Alan Bale & Brendan Gillon: Re-Examining the Mass-Count Distinction
• Abdelkader Fassi Fehri: General Nouns in the Gramma of Count/Mass
• Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, Marcelo Ferreira: Count Bare NPs ad Amounts of Objects
• Emrah Görgülü: A new Look at the Count-Mass Distinction in Turkish
• Scott Grimm & Beth Levin: Who Has More Furniture? An Exploration of the Bases for Comparison
• Stefan Hinterwimmer: A Comparison of Abstract and Concrete Mass Nouns in Terms of Their Interaction with Vague Quantificational Determiners
• Kiyofon Antoine Koné: Les Limites de l'Opposition Singulier/Pluriel dans la Systématisation des Emplois des Classificateurs Tagbana
• XuPing Li: Water and Boy in Mandarin: an Ontological Distinction only
• Yan Li: L'Interprétation de la Sémantique de  'nom propre-men' en chinois
• Suzi Lima: The Count/Mass Distinction in Yudha (Tupi): Quantity Judgement Studies
• Ana Muller: Individuation in a Bare-Nouns-Only Language
• Susan Rothstein, Alessandro Treves, Ritwik Kulkarni: A Statistical Investigation into the Crosslinguistic Distribution of Mass and Count Nouns: Morphosyntactic and Semantic perspectives
• Peter Smith: Count-Mass Nouns May Not Be Mass After All
• Roberto Zamparelli: Countability, Number and (In)Definiteness in Chinese Nominals

Posters

• Viviane Arigne: Les Discrets Collectifs: un Révélateur pour l'Opposition Discret/Massif?
• Giorgio Magri: Set-Theory Does Not Provide the Right Structure for the Semantics of Plurals
• Catherine Mazodier: "How Much Sideboob is Too Much Sideboob?" Fonctionnement du Nom, Quantification et/ou Qualification: une AnalyseEnonciative des Emplois en Contexte du Néologisme "Sideboob".
• Susan Rothstein, Roberta Pires de Oliveira: Bare Noun Prases and Comparatives: a Cross linguistic Perspective?
• Sylvie Voisin: Liquide, Massif et Collectif en Kobiana
• Debra Ziegeler: Bare Nominals in Contact Dialects of English: a Unified Semantic Diagnosis

Scientific Committee

• Alexandra Arapinis (ENS, IHPST)
• David Barner (UCSD)
• Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS, Université Paris 7)
• Jenny Doetjes (Université de Leiden)
• Friederike Moltmann (CNRS, IHPST)
• David Nicolas (CNRS, IJN)
• Almerindo Ojeda (UCDavis)
• Susan Rothstein(Université Bar Ilan)
• Elena Soare (Université Paris 8)
• Fayssal Tayalati (Université Lille 3)
• Lucia M. Tovena (Université Paris 7)
• Danièle van de Velde (Université Lille 3)
• Byeon-uk Yi (Toronto University)
• Anne Zribi-Herts (Université Paris 8)

Organizing Committee

• Alexandra Arapinis (ENS, IHPST)
• Friederike Moltmann (CNRS, IHPST)
• Lucia M. Tovena (Université Paris 7)