International Workshop "The grammar of reference and quantification: functions, variations, and change
The International Workshop ‘The grammar of reference and quantification: functions, variation, and change’ took place at the University of Bologna (Italy), June 15-16 2017, as the 2017 edition of the series ‘Workshops on Referential Expressions in Discourse (RED)’.
It was organized by Chiara Gianollo (Università di Bologna, Italy), Nicola Grandi (Università di Bologna, Italy) and Klaus von Heusinger (Universität zu Köln, Germany).
The meeting continued the discussion opened during the 2016 version on the interface properties of reference and quantification: this time the participants discussed the written version of their contribution, in order to produce a joint publication.
Organisation
- Chiara Gianollo (University of Bologna)
- Nicola Grandi (University of Bologna)
- Klaus von Heusinger (University of Cologne)
Invited speakers and discussants
- Maria Aloni (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
- Martin Becker (Köln, Germany)
- Irene Franco (Frankfurt, Germany)
- Hans Kamp (Austin (Texas), USA - Stuttgart, Germany)
- Manuel Leonetti (Alcalá, Spain)
- Maria Napoli (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy)
- Edgar Onea (Göttingen, Germany)
- Svetlana Petrova (Wuppertal, Germany)
- Cecilia Poletto (Frankfurt, Germany - Università di Padova, Italy)
- Mario Squartini (Torino, Italy)
- Elisabeth Stark (Zürich, Switzerland)
Program
Thursday 15.06.2017
| 9.45 - 10.00 | Welcome / Introduction |
| 10.00 - 11.15 | Maria Aloni - Indefinites as fossils |
| 11.15 - 11.45 | coffee |
| 11.45 - 13.00 | Edgar Onea - Reference and Questions |
| 13.00 - 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 - 15.15 | Mario Squartini - Quantification and classification in Romance indefinite determiners: Number or Seinsart? |
| 15.15 - 15.45 | coffee |
| 15.45 - 17.00 | Cecilia Poletto - What’s in a QP? On the internal structure of bare Qs and quantified nominal expressions |
| 18.30 | City walk |
| 19.30 | Dinner |
Friday 16.06.2017
| 9.15 - 10.30 | Irene Franco - N-words in Old Italian |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | coffee |
| 11.00 - 12.15 | Svetlana Petrova - Bare and indefinite nominal predicates in the history of German |
| 12.15 - 13.30 | Manuel Leonetti - Grammar and pragmatics in referential null subjects |
| 13.30 - 13.45 | Concluding information & goodbye |
Find the program here
