One of th e main questions that inspires this workshop is ho w languages with and without an article system go about referent coding and helping the hearer to re cognize whether a given NP should be interpreted a s definite, specific or non-specific. Other questi ons concern the grammatical consequences of having or lacking an article system, and the specific se mantic-pragmatic parameters along which article sy stems may vary. The workshop will be held at the 4 0th Annual Meeting of the DGfS.
\nThe workshop will bring together researchers from theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, t ypology, semantics and pragmatics, and seeks to st imulate an interdisciplinary discussion. We invite submissions in the topics including (but not limi ted to): (1) grammatical implications of having an article system vs. not having any articles at all ; (2) the (dis-)similarity with respect to referen ce coding in languages with and without article sy stems; (3) the contextual restrictions on the omis sion of articles in languages with an article syst em; (4) the psycholinguistic implications of the d ifferent ways of coding definiteness and specifici ty across languages.
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