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Meronymy Conference

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Meronymy Conference: Details for submission

1. Goals of the conference — The overall goal of the conference is to get a better handle on the typology of meronym systems and the theoretical questions involved. The goal for the presentations by the members of the project team will be specifically to present detailed accounts of the meronymy of each language in … Continue reading

Meronymy Symposium: Abstracts due May 1!!

We are well into preparations for the Meronymy Symposium “Meronymy across Languages: Lexicalization, Semantics, Morphosyntax”, sponsored by the Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the National Science Foundation, and the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Iztapalapa. A million thanks to these institutions and our planning committee … Continue reading

Introducing: COTM (Chunche of the Month)

Dear MesoSpace People (who have run the Novel Objects a.k.a. “Chunches” task), You are reading the inaugural post of our new Chunche of the Month series. Here is the basic idea: every month, I blog about one chunche. I describe it, tell you a little bit about what the Yucatec speakers had to say about … Continue reading

Meronymy meeting in Mexico City (summary)

Below is the email that Juergen sent after his Mexico City meeting with Alejandra Capistran and Carolyn O’Meara. Please feel free to comment and have open discussion about the issues raised here. *I’ve created a subfolder “NovelObs materials” to the MesoSpace Dropbox folder and moved all the documents and spreadsheets pertaining to Novel Objects = … Continue reading