Objects and the Grammar of Countability

Peter R. Sutton, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Potsdam,Hana Filip, Professor of Semantics, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf

Peter R. Sutton is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Potsdam, where he is a PI on the project 'Nouns in Contexts of Evaluation'. His previous project 'Polysemy and Countability in Abstract Nouns' was based at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He originally trained in philosophy, specializing in the philosophy of language, but has worked in the fields of semantics and pragmatics for over 10 years. His primary areas of interest are in the lexical-compositional semantics interface, namely countability and the count/mass distinction, polysemy and the use of polysemous expressions in quantifier and numeral constructions, and vagueness.

Hana Filip is Professor of Semantics at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. Her research focuses on aspect, genericity, the mass/count distinction, the interaction of noun phrase semantics with verbal aspect, (in)definiteness, and context-dependence in semantic interpretation. The theoretical background of much of her research is that of mereological semantics, which integrates formal and lexical semantics. She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to her current appointment, she held appointments at Stanford University, Northwestern University, the University of Rochester, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Florida.