SALT 21 Program
Friday, May 20
Schedule
Time | Event |
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8:15-9:00 | Registration/Continental Breakfast |
9:00-9:15 | Welcome: Roger Schwarzschild, Chair, Department of Linguistics Opening remarks: James Swenson, Dean of Humanities, School of Arts and Sciences |
9:15-10:15 | Invited Speaker: Angelika Kratzer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) What can can mean download abstract |
10:15-10:55 | Maria Aloni & Floris Roelofsen (ILCC, University of Amsterdam) Indefinites in comparatives |
10:55-11:15 | Coffee |
11:15-11:55 | Todor Koev (Rutgers) Evidentiality and temporal distance learning |
11:55-12:35 | Ashwini Deo & Maria Mercedes Pinango (Yale) Quantification and context in measure adverbials |
12:35-1:15 | Jacopo Romoli (Harvard) The presuppositions of soft triggers are not presuppositions |
1:15-3:00 | Lunch Break |
3:00-3:40 | Igor Yanovich (MIT) The problem of counterfactual de reattitudes |
3:40-4:20 | Jakub Dotlačil (University of Groningen) Fastidious distributivity |
4:20-4:40 | Coffee |
4:40-5:20 | Richard Zuber (CNRS) Generalized quantifiers and the semantics of the same |
5:20-6:20 | Invited Speaker: Mandy Simons (Carnegie Mellon University) Dynamic pragmatics, or, why we shouldn't be afraid of embedded implicatures download abstract |
Saturday, May 21
Time | Event |
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8:45-9:00 | Registration/Continental Breakfast |
9:00-10:00 | Invited Speaker: Christopher Kennedy (University of Chicago) A neo-Fregean semantics for number words download abstract |
10:00-10:40 | Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo, & Jesse Snedeker (Harvard & MIT) An experimental investigation of presupposition projection in conditional sentences |
10:40-11:00 | Coffee |
11:00-11:40 | Daniel Altshuler (Hampshire College) Towards a more fine-grained theory of temporal adverbials |
11:40-12:20 | Assaf Toledo & Galit W. Sassoon (Utrecht University & ILLC, University of Amsterdam) Absolute vs. relative adjectives: variance within vs. between individuals |
12:20-1:00 | Robert Henderson (UC Santa Cruz) Pluractional distributivity and dependence |
1:00-1:45 | Lunch Break |
1:45-2:15 | Business Meeting |
2:30-3:10 | Brian Leahy (University of Konstanz) Presuppositions and antipresuppositions in conditionals |
3:10-3:50 | Guillaume Thomas (MIT) Another and the meaning of measure phrases |
4:30-6:30 | Poster session/Reception (Multi-purpose Room, Rutgers Student Center CAC) |
7:00-12:00 | Dinner/Party (Multi-purpose Room, Rutgers Student Center CAC) |
Sunday, May 22
Time | Event |
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9:45-10:00 | Continental Breakfast |
10:00-11:00 | Invited Speaker: Jesse Snedeker (Harvard) Cascading water, implicit naming and instantaneous implicature: experimental semantics/pragmatics in the post-modular era download abstract |
11:00-11:40 | Daniel Lassiter (NYU) Nouwen's puzzle and a scalar semantics for obligations, needs, and requirements |
11:40-12:20 | Walter Pedersen (McGill University) Implicit complements, paychecks and variable-free semantics |
12:20-12:50 | Coffee & Sandwiches |
12:50-1:30 | Emar Maier (University of Groningen) On the roads to de se |
1:30-2:10 | Micha Y. Breakstone, Alexandre Cremers, Danny Fox, & Martin Hackl (MIT, Hebrew University, & Sigma-École Normale Supérieure) Processing degree operator movement: implications for semantics of differentials |
Alternates
Peter Graff & Jeremy Hartman (MIT)
Constraints on predication
Hongyuan Dong & Mats Rooth (George Washington University & Cornell)
A recursive phonology interface for WH-F alternative semantics
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Patrick Grosz (MIT)
A uniform analysis for concessive at least and optative at least
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Poster Session (Saturday May 21, 4:30-6:30)
Multi-purpose Room, Rutgers Student Center CAC
Luis Alonso-Ovalle & Paula Menendez-Benito (University of Massachusetts, Boston & University of Goettingen)
Two types of epistemic indefinites: private ignorance vs. public indifference
Pranav Anand, Caroline Andrews, Donka Farkas, Kevin Reschke, & Matthew Wagers (UC Santa Cruz)
Quantification-triggered inclusivization in plural interpretation
Corien Bary & Dag Haug (Radbound-Nijmegen & University of Oslo)
Inter- and intrasentential anaphora: the case of the Ancient Greek participle
Maria Biezma (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Conditional inversion and givenness
Elena Castroviejo (University of Chicago)
So as a weak degree modifier
Liz Coppock & David Beaver (University of Texas, Austin & Lund University)
Sole sisters
Luka Crnič (MIT)
Evaluativity and polarity
Ilaria Frana & Kyle Rawlins (University of Goettingen & Johns Hopkins University)
Unconditional concealed questions and the nature of Heim's ambiguity
Michael Gagnon & Alexis Wellwood (University of Maryland)
Distributivity and modality: where each may go, every can't follow
Peter Graff & Jeremy Hartman (MIT)
Constraints on predication
Thomas Grano (University of Chicago)
Mental action and event structure in the semantics of try
Vincent Homer (University of California, Los Angeles/École Normale Supérieure)
On the dependent character of licensing
Gianina Iordachioaia & Elena Soare (Stuttgart University & University of Paris 8)
A further insight into the syntax-semantics of pluractionality
Yu Izumi (University of Maryland)
Interpreting bare nouns: type-shifting vs. silent heads
Ezra Keshet (University of Michigan)
Contrastive focus and paycheck pronouns
Hadas Kotek, Yasutada Sudo, Edwin Howard, & Martin Hackl (MIT)
Is most more than half?
Takeo Kurafuji (Ritsumeikan University)
Japanese comparatives are semantically conjuncts: a dynamic view
Dave Kush (University of Maryland)
Height-relative determination of (non-root) modal flavor: evidence from Hindi
Chungmin Lee & Myounghyoun Song (Seoul National University)
CF-reduplication: dynamic prototypes and contrastive focus effects
Terje Lohndal (University of Maryland)
The addicities of thematic separation
Qiong-peng Luo & Stephen Crain (Macquarie University)
Uniqueness and co-variation in Chinese wh-conditionals
Ai Matsui (Michigan State University)
On the licensing of understating NPIs
Lilia Rissman (Johns Hopkins University)
Instrumental with and use: a unified modal analysis
Anastasia Smirnova (Ohio State University)
Inferences about the future and gaps in evidential paradigms in Balkan languages
Sandhya Sundaresan (University of Tromsø (CASTL)/University of Stuttgart)
A plea for syntax: monsters, agreement and de se