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The Workshop "The Mass-Count Distinction -- Philosophical, Linguistic, and Psychological Perspectives" is held on 8th June, 2009

The workshop "The Mass-Count Distinction -- Philosophical, Linguistic, and Psychological Perspectives" is to be held as follows.

* Admission Free, No reservation required.

 

Workshop: "The Mass-Count Distinction -- Philosophical, Linguistic, and Psychological Perspectives"

Date and Time: Monday, 8th June, 2009; 15:00 - 18:00

Venue: G-SEC Lab, 6th floor, East Research Building, Mita Campus, Keio University

Speakers and Themes: Byeong-Uk Yi (Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto); "The Semantics of Japanese Classifier Construction"

Francis Bond (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology); "The Semantics of Japanese Classifier Construction"

Mutsumi Imai (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies , Keio University); "Relation between Count/Mass Syntax and Ontological Concepts. From a Psychological Perspective"

Lajos Brons (Faculty of Letters, Keio University); "The Mass Noun Thesis as a Case of 'Othering' in Interpretation across Boundaries"

Organized by: Takashi Iida (Professor, Faculty of Letters, Keio University) / Philosophy and Cultural Anthropology Unit, Global COE CARLS

Reference (in Japanese): ワークショップThe Mass-Count Distinction-- Philosophical,Linguistic, and Psychological Perspectives