Demi-journée d’étude en linguistique | La pluralité nominale. L’expression phonologique, syntaxique et sémantique de l’implicite

10h00-11h25
Andrew Nevins –  Professor of Linguistics –Psychology and Language Sciences – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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Paucity: where is the upper bound?

The first approach to paucals we would like to envision is one that attempts to ground the linguistic notion of paucity in the psychological notion of small numerosities. The rationale underlying this approach is that paucals are approximative numbers which are used by speakers to cover small sets of countable entities, a notion which appear to be definable on psychological grounds: a set is ‘small’ only if its numerosity can be rapidly and confidently quantified by speakers. While it is uncontroversial that people are fast and accurate at identifying small numerosities, the questions we need to address are the following: is there a plausible cognitive cutoff between small numerosities and larger ones, and is it reflected in the linguistic signature of paucals? We examine this question through (a) a range of experiments on the English approximative expression a couple, and (b) the results of semantic and pragmatic inferences of quantity made with the Slovenian morphosyntactic dual.
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11h30-13h00
Viviane Deprez - Senior Scientist - Directeur de recherche (Institute for Cognitive Sciences-Marc Jeannerod UMR 5304/ CNRS Lyon/U. Rutgers)

Director Comparative Experimental Linguistics Lab (CELL)
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Comparaison des pluriels en créole Haïtien et Mauricien

Journée organisée par Michela RUSSO - Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 & SFL UMR 7023 CNRS Université Paris 8

Journée financée par l’UMR 7023 CNRS « Structure Formelle du Langage » -Université Paris 8 – dans le cadre de l’opération transversale « Variation, changement, émergence ».