Workshop: Mass/Count in Linguistics, Philosophy and Cognitive Science

Mass/Count workshop: Dec. 19-21, 2012
Venue: Paris, France

Invited Speakers:

Almerindo Ojeda (UCDavis)
Countability and Grammatical Number: An Aristotelian View and Its Challenges (Dussane)

David Barner (UCSD)
Experimental evidence for the compositionality of sortal concepts (Dussane)

Dana Cohen et Anne Zribi-Hertz (SFL/Paris8)
“Mass” vs. “Count” : on the distribution of labour between syntax and the lexicon (Dussane)

Henry Laycock (Queen’s University)
WORDS AND CONCEPTS: the ‘object’ concept and the ‘matter’ concept (Dussane)

Workshop website: http://mass-count.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en

Workshop: Systematic Semantic Change

Systematic Semantic Change: Apr. 5-6, 2013
Venue: UT Austin.
Invited Speakers:

Cleo Condoravdi (CSLI and Stanford)
Osten Dahl (Stockholm)
Regine Eckardt (Gottingen)
Larry Horn (Yale)
Sabine Iatridou (MIT)
Roumyana Pancheva (University of Southern California)
Elizabeth Traugott (Stanford)

Program: http://linguisticssouthasia.commons.yale.edu/ssc-program/
Website: http://linguistlist.org/callconf/browse-conf-action.cfm?ConfID=153491