Organizer

M.Teresa Espinal (UAB) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Departament de Filologia Catalana 08193-Bellaterra (Spain)

Manuel Leonetti (UAH) Universidad de Alcala Departamento de Filologia Facultad de Filosofia y Letras c/ Trinidad, 5 28801 Alcala de Henares / Madrid (Spain)

Louise McNally (UPF) Universitat Pompeu Fabra Departament de Traducció i Filologia La Rambla, 30-32 E-08002 Barcelona (Spain)

 

Abstracts

Teresa Espinal & Louise McNally. Characterizing 'have'-predicates and indefiniteness

Marco Garcia. A Proto-Role approach to DOM

Susan Fischer. Definiteness, indefiniteness and word-order

Anna Barta. Nominal Projections in Old Romance

Klaus von Heusinger & Sofiana Chiriacescu. Bare nouns and pe in Romanian

Manuel Leonetti. Remarks on Focus Structure and Non-Specificity.

Daniel Jacob. Definiteness and specificity in denominal verbs

Xavier Villalba. Definite adjective nominalizations in Spanish

José M. Brucart & Ángel Gallego. The aspectual contribution of vectorial bare NPs

Elisabeth Stark & Natasha Pomino. Adnominal Adjectives in Romance: where Morphology meets Semantics

Programme

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

9:15-9:30 Welcome and Opening
9:30-10:45 M. Teresa Espinal & Louise McNally (U. Autònoma de Barcelona / U. Pompeu Fabra): Characterizing 'have'-predicates and indefiniteness
10:45-12:00 Marco García (U. Köln): A Proto-Role approach to DOM
12:00-12:15 Coffee break
12:15-13:30 Susann Fischer (U. Stuttgart): Definiteness, indefiniteness and word-order
13:30- 15:00 Lunch break
15:00-16:15 Anna Bartra (U. Autònoma de Barcelona): Nominal Projections in Old Romance
16:15-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:45 Klaus von Heusinger & Sofiana Chiriacescu (U. Stuttgart): "Bare nouns" and pe in Romanian

Friday, October 10th, 2008

09:30-10:45 Manuel Leonetti (U. Alcalá): Remarks on Focus Structure and Non-Specificity
10:45-12:00 Daniel Jacob (U. Köln): Definiteness and specificity in denominal verbs
12:00-12:15 Coffee break
12:15-13:30 Xavier Villalba (U. Autònoma de Barcelona): Definite adjective nominalizations in Spanish
13:30- 15:00 Lunch break
15:00-16:15 José M. Brucart & Ángel Gallego (U. Autònoma de Barcelona): The aspectual contribution of vectorial bare NPs
16:15-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:45 Elisabeth Stark & Natasha Pomino (U. Zürich): Adnominal Adjectives in Romance: where Morphology meets Semantics
17:45-18:30 Closing of the workshop