Breakfast

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

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

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

2:30-3:30

Keynote speech:

Hagit Borer

(University of Southern California)
Syntax for Kinds?

3:30-3:45

Coffee Break

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

5:30-6:00

Ileana Paul
(University of Western Ontario)
General number in Malagasy

Breakfast

9:00-10:00

Keynote speech:
Gennaro Chierchia

(Harvard University)
Mass nouns, vagueness, and number

10:00-10:15

Coffee Break

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

11:30-12:30

Keynote speech:
Brendan Gillon (McGill University)
Underspecification and the mass count distinction

12:30-1:30

Lunch

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

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