Numerals in world's languages (Leipzig, 29-30 marzo 2004)

Presentazione

The Department of Linguistics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Leipzig, Germany

WORKSHOP ON
NUMERALS IN THE WORLD'S LANGUAGES

Per informazioni: David Gil, Dept Ling, Max Planck Inst, Inselstrasse 22, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany;

fax: 49-341-995-2119; gil@eva.mpg.de

Agenda

DAY 1
   
0830 - 0910 Registration
0910 - 0915 Opening Words
  Keynote Address
0915 - 1000 What Determines Salient Features of Numeral Systems? The Psychology of the Number 4 (+/-1); and the Sociology of the Packing Strategy
James R. Hurford
   
1000 - 1030 Refreshments
   
Session 1: Numerals in Africa and Europe
1030 - 1100 Exceptional Morphology of the Tura numerals (an Eastern Mande language)
Dmitry Idiatov 
1100 - 1130 Five Polish Numeral Puzzles and the Internal Delimitation of Case
Adam Przepiorkowski 
1130 - 1200 Complementary Features in Slavic Cardinal Syntax
Henning Andersen
   
1200 - 1330 Lunch
   
Session 2: Numerals in Asia
1330 - 1400 The Morphology of Gender in Israeli Hebrew Numerals
Uri Horesh 
1400 - 1430 The Mathematical Principles of Number-Building in Tibeto-Burman Languages
Martine Mazaudon 
1430 - 1500 Frequentative Numerals and Verbal Numeral Classifiers - Some Typological Reflections
Thekla Wiebusch 
1500 - 1530  One Item to Ten Items in Written and Spoken Mandarin
Katia Chirkova 
   
1530 - 1600 Refreshments
   
Session 3: Numerals in Oceania
1600 - 1630 The Grammaticalization of "One" plus Classifiers in Malayic Languages
David Gil 
1630 - 1700 The Syntactic Integration of Bodypart Nouns in Awyu Languages of Southern New Guinea
Lourens de Vries 
1700 - 1730 Typology of Numeral Systems in Papuan Languages A Cognitive Account
Claudia Gerstner-Link 
1730 - 1800 Numerals in Australian Languages
Bill McGregor 
 
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  DAY 2
   
Session 4:  Numerals in the Americas
0900 - 0930 The Morphology of Yurok Numerals
Juliette Blevins 
0930 - 1000 Tracing the Development of Numerals in the Guaviaré-Japurá (Maku) Family
Pattie Epps 
1000 - 1030 On the Absence of Number and Numerals in Pirahã
Dan Everett 
   
1030 - 1100 Refreshments 
   
Session 5: Numerals in Sign Languages
1100 - 1130 Two=2? Mental Number Processing in German Sign Language
Wiebke Iversen & Meike Adam 
1130 - 1200 Properties of Number in Quebec Sign Language
Dénis Bouchard & Anne-Marie Parisot 
   
1200 - 1330 Lunch
   
Session 6: Derived Numerals and Complex Constructions
1330 - 1400 Language and the Emergence of Recursivity in the Numerical Domain
Heike Wiese
1400 - 1430 Cross-Linguistic Distribution of Derived Numerals
Ljuba Veselinova 
1430 - 1500 A Catalogue of Ways and Means of Expressing Numerical Approximation
Frans Plank 
1500 - 1530 A Singular Plural
Tania Ionin & Ora Matushansky 
   
1530 - 1600 Refreshments
   
Session 7: General Issues
1600 - 1630 Methodology and Preliminary Results of a Research Project for an Areal Typology of Numerals
Rossella Pannain 
1630 - 1700 Cardinal Numerals Revisited in GF
Harald Hammarström & Aarne Ranta 
1700 - 1730 Demotion of Numeral Nouns from Heads to Dependents - a Cognitive Explanation
Torodd Kinn 
1730 - 1800 Prepositional Numerals
Norbert Corver & Joost Zwarts