Workshop on Mass and Count Nouns Program

February 7^th Saturday (Woodsworth 20)

8:30-8:50	Breakfast
8:50-9:00	Welcoming speech: Diane Massam
9:00-10:00	Keynote speech: Heike Wiese (Potsdam University) Collectives in the Intersection of Mass and Count Nouns
10:00-10:15	Coffee Break
	Chair: Jila Ghomeshi
10:15-10:45	Eric Mathieu (Université d’Ottawa) On the mass/count distinction in Ojibwe
10:45-11:15	Martina Wiltschko (University of British Columbia) Decomposing the mass/count distinction
11:15-11:45	Solveiga Armoskaite (University of British Columbia) Effects of a pluractional suffix. Evidence from Lithuanian
11:45-12:00	Coffee Break
	Chair: Elizabeth Cowper
12:00-1:00	Keynote speech: Jeff Pelletier (Simon Fraser University) Some old things and some new stuff about mass and count nouns
1:00-2:30	Lunch
	Chair: Martina Wiltschko
2:30-3:30	Keynote speech: Hagit Borer (University of Southern California) Syntax for Kinds?
3:30-3:45	Coffee Break
	Chair: Daniel Hall
3:45-4:15	Saeed Ghaniabadi (University of Manitoba) Plural Marking beyond Count Nouns
4:15-4:45	Scott Grimm (Stanford University) Number Marking and Individuation: A View from Dagaare
4:45-5:15	Kimiko Nakanishi & Elizabeth Ritter (University of Calgary) Plurality in languages without a count-mass distinction
5:15-5:30	Coffee Break
	Chair: Eric Mathieu
5:30-6:00	Ileana Paul (University of Western Ontario) General number in Malagasy

February 8^th Sunday (Woodsworth 20)

8:30-9:00	Breakfast
	Chair: Simona Herdan
9:00-10:00	Keynote speech: Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard University) Mass nouns, vagueness, and number
10:00-10:15	Coffee Break
	Chair: Ileana Paul
10:15-10:45	George Tsoulas & Eytan Zweig (The University of York) Object vs. Substance Mass Nouns: A crosslinguistic perspective
10:45-11:15	Elizabeth Cowper & Daniel Hall (University of Toronto) Aspects of individuation
11:15-11:30	Coffee Break
	Chair: Susana Bejar
11:30-12:30	Keynote speech: Brendan Gillon (McGill University) Underspecification and the mass count distinction
12:30-1:30	Lunch
	Chair: Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux
1:30-2:00	So-One Hwang (University of Maryland) Evidence for the syntactic representation of the domain restriction of quantifiers
2:00-2:30	Alan Bale & David Barner (Concordia University and UCSD) Mass and Count at the Syntax/Semantics Interface
2:30-3:00	Natalie M. Klein, Renjie Li, T. Florian Jaeger, Greg N. Carlson, & Michael K. Tanenhaus (University of Rochester) The Real-Time Processing of Chinese and English Classifiers
3:00-3:15	Coffee Break
	Chair: Diane Massam
3:15-3:45	Niina Ning Zhang (National Chung Cheng University) Packaging Number and Gender Features in Classifiers
3:45-4:45	Keynote speech: Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng (Leiden University) Noun classes and classifiers