Conference: the 5th International Conference on Bantu Languages

the 5th International Conference on Bantu Languages: June 13th-15th, 2013.

Venue: Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, 65 Rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris, France

Invited Speakers:
Dmitry Idiatov (LLACAN-CNRS)
Sophie Manus (DDL-Université Lumière Lyon 2)
Annie Rialland (LPP-CNRS)
Mark Van de Velde (LLACAN-CNRS)

Conference Website: http://bantu5.sciencesconf.org/

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