[경희대 철학과+토론토 대학 이병욱 교수] Workshop on the semantics of nouns, quantifiers and classifiers

Workshop on the semantics of nouns, quantifiers and classifiers

Date: July 18, 2015 (Saturday)

Location:  The Grand Meeting Room (2^nd floor), University Administration, Kyung Hee University (서울 동대문구 회기동 경희대학교 본관 2층 대회의실)

Organizers: Byeong-uk Yi (University of Toronto & Kyung Hee University; b.yi@utoronto.ca), Chunghyoung Lee (Kyung Hee University; chunglee@khu.ac.kr)

Funding Support: Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada grant (Speaking of the Many and the Much), BK21+ grant of National Research Foundation of Korea (경희대학교 철학과 동서양 과학문화에 대한 철학적 성찰 팀)

Schedule

10:00-10:30 Registration

10:30-10:35 Welcoming Speech

10:35-11:50

Byeong-uk Yi (University of Toronto & Kyung Hee University)

“Quantifiers and donkey anaphora”

11:50-1:20 Lunch

1:20-2:35

Takashi Iida (Nihon University & Keio University)

Mass/count distinction and Japanese semantics

2:35-2:45 Break

2:45-4:00

Chungmin Lee (Seoul National University)

“Genericity in Classifier Languages: Is it topical and definite?”

4:00-4:20 Break

4:20-5:35

Kwangsup Kim (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)

“The ambiguity of names and the semantics of copular constructions”

5:35-6:00 General Discussion

6:00-8:00 Dinner