The aim of this event is to bring together linguists working on the syntactic and semantic description of languages as well as on the development of theories in order to discuss answers to two main questions:i. What formal strategies do natural languages use to express definiteness?ii. What are the possible meanings of their definite noun phrases?These questions have not been explored deeply enough in the vast majority of languages of the world and the diversity of language families and language types that are being currently described are a potential source for interesting typological and semantic data.We invite submissions contributing to the study of any aspect of the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of definite noun phrases in natural languages. Please submit an abstract in PDF format of no more than one page of text with an additional page for extra data, figures, and references. This file must not contain any personal information or affiliation, and must be submitted via EasyChair. The talks, which can be given either in English or in Spanish, should be 30 minutes long followed by 10 minutes of discussion.The organizers can be contacted at:definitenessacrosslanguages@gmail.comInvited speakers:Bert Le Bruyn (Utrecht University)Florian Schwarz (University of Pennsylvania)Comité organizador:Ana Aguilar Guevara (National Autonomous University of Mexico)Julia Pozas Loyo (El Colegio de México)Violeta Vázquez-Rojas Maldonado (El Colegio de México)
