Program / Programa

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Wednesday 22nd, UNAM

Registration

Opening Remarks

Urtzi Etxeberria (CNRS-IKER)

The definite determiner and its uses: the case of Basque

Carolina Oggiani (Universidad de la República/ Universidad de Buenos Aires / CONICET) and

Inés Kuguel (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento/Universidad de Buenos Aires).

Definiteness in bare locative nominales in Rio de la Plata Spanish (slides)

Amy Rose Deal (UC Berkeley) and Julia Nee (UC Berkeley).

Number marking and the definite interpretation of bare nouns in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec (slides)

Coffee Break

Dylan Bumford (New York University), Lucas Champollion (New York University) and Linmin Zhang (New York University).

The rabbit in the hat is back: Definites with weakened uniqueness presuppositions (slides)

Elizabeth Coppock (University of Gothenburg) and Linnea Strand (University of Gothenburg).

Most vs. the most in languages where the more means most (slides)

Lunch

Txuss Martin (Durham University) and Francesc Roca (Universitat de Girona).

DP referential topology

Adina Williams (New York University).

Weakness as the Absence of NumP: The Case of English

Olga Borik (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and M.Teresa Espinal (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

Definiteness in Russian bare nominal kinds

Coffee Break

Florian Schwarz (University of Pennsylvania)

Weak vs. Strong Definite Articles - Meaning and Form across Languages (slides) (Invited talk)

Thursday 23rd, COLMEX

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David Hall (Queen Mary University of London).

Licensing D in classifier languages: A Mirror-theoretic approach

Carlos Cisneros (University of Chicago).

Definiteness in Cuevas Mixtec (slides)

Andrew Simpson (University of Southern California) and Priyanka Biswas (University of Southern California).

Bare nominals, classifiers and the representation of definiteness in Bangla

Coffee Break

Norma Berenice Gómez González (Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia)

Estrategias para la marcación de la definitud y de la indefinitud en matlatzinca

Cristina Buenrostro (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

La frase nominal definida en chuj de San Mateo Ixtatán

Samuel Herrera Castro (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

La definitud simple en huave de San Mateo del Mar

Lunch

Poster Session 1 (chaired by Bert Le Bruyn)

Milena Sereikaite (University of Pennsylvania)

Strong versus weak definites: evidence from Lithuanian adjectives (slides)

Ava Irani (University of Pennsylvania)

Two Types of Definites in American Sign Language

Friday 24th, COLMEX

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Thaís M. M. De Sá (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Greg N. Carlson (University of Rochester), Maria Luiza Cunha Lima (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) and Michael K. Tanenhaus (University of Rochester)

Is the weak definite a generic? An experimental investigation (slides)

Miloje Despic (Cornell University)

Anaphoricity and Kinds (in Languages) without Definite Articles

Ethan Nowak (UC Berkeley)

Complex demonstratives and selection presuppositions

Coffee Break

Rudmila-Rodica Ivan (University of Massachussetts Amherst) and Deniz Ozyildiz (University of Massachussetts Amherst)

The temporal presuppositions of Somali definite determiners

David Beaver (University of Texas at Austin) and Elizabeth Coppock (University of Gothenburg)

Why possessives should not be discussed at this conference (slides)

Jolien Scholten (Utrecht University)

Definitely possessive: The role of the definite article in possessive structures in varieties of Dutch (slides)

Lunch

Poster Session 2 (chaired by Florian Schwarz)

Bert Le Bruyn (Utrecht University)

L2 definiteness (Invited talk)

Concluding Remarks

Reception

Poster Session 1

Urtzi Etxeberria (CNRS-IKER) and Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago)

Quantifier domain restriction: a business of D (Talk alternate 4)

Edmundo Luna (Mokpo National University)

Polysemy, Homophony, Definiteness, and Possession: The Case of Balinese -(n)e (poster)

Deniz Ozyildiz (University of Massachussetts Amherst) and Rudmila-Rodica Ivan (University of Massachussetts Amherst)

The Somali microscope: pronouns, determiners and possession

Micaela Guzman Morales (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia)

La definitud de frases nominales en narraciones mazahuas

Maurice Pico (Independent) and Amanda Delgado (Leiden University)

Definite and indefinite noun phrases in Yokot’an (Chontal Mayan) (Talk alternate 2)

David Paul Gerards (University of Zurich)

Definite mass nouns in object position and reference to kinds in Old Spanish (poster)

Poster Session 2

Berit Gehrke (CNRS-LLF / Paris Diderot)

Definite participants in event kinds

Ann Reed (College of William and Mary)

Good-enough "the" (poster)

M.Teresa Espinal (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and Sonia Cyrino (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)

On expletive articles and long weak definites

Claire Beyssade (University of Paris 8)

Definite descriptions and (quasi-proper) names assignation in French (Talk alternate 3)

Mario Hernández Luna (El Colegio de México)

Frase nominal escueta y tópico en la lectura definida del miahuateco (Talk alternate 1)