Program
SALT 21 Program
Download a pdf version of this program that also contains all of the talk abstracts.Friday, May 20 (Voorhees 105) |
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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 |
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| 9:15–10:15 |
Invited Speaker: Angelika Kratzer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) What can can mean download abstract |
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| 10:15–10:55 |
Maria Aloni & Floris Roelofsen (ILCC, University of Amsterdam) Indefinites in comparatives show abstract / download abstract |
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| 10:55–11:15 | Coffee | |
| 11:15–11:55 |
Todor Koev (Rutgers) Evidentiality and temporal distance learning show abstract / download abstract |
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| 11:55–12:35 |
Ashwini Deo & Maria Mercedes Pinango (Yale) Quantification and context in measure adverbials show abstract / download abstract |
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| 12:35–1:15 |
Jacopo Romoli (Harvard) The presuppositions of soft triggers are not presuppositions show abstract / download abstract |
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| 1:15–3:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 3:00–3:40 |
Igor Yanovich (MIT) The problem of counterfactual de reattitudes show abstract / download abstract |
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| 3:40–4:20 |
Jakub Dotlačil (University of Groningen) Fastidious distributivity show abstract / download abstract |
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| 4:20–4:40 | Coffee | |
| 4:40–5:20 |
Richard Zuber (CNRS) Generalized quantifiers and the semantics of the same show abstract / download abstract |
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| 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 |
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Saturday, May 21 (Voorhees 105) |
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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 |
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| 10:00–10:40 |
Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo, & Jesse Snedeker (Harvard & MIT) An experimental investigation of presupposition projection in conditional sentences show abstract / download abstract |
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| 10:40–11:00 | Coffee | |
| 11:00–11:40 |
Daniel Altshuler (Hampshire College) Towards a more fine-grained theory of temporal adverbials show abstract / download abstract |
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| 11:40–12:20 |
Assaf Toledo & Galit W. Sassoon (Utrecht University & ILLC, University of Amsterdam) Absolute vs. relative adjectives: variance within vs. between individuals show abstract / download abstract |
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| 12:20–1:00 |
Robert Henderson (UC Santa Cruz) Pluractional distributivity and dependence show abstract / download abstract |
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| 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 show abstract / download abstract |
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| 3:10–3:50 |
Guillaume Thomas (MIT) Another and the meaning of measure phrases show abstract / download abstract |
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| 4:30–6:30 | Poster session/Reception (Multi-purpose Room, Rutgers Student Center CAC) | |
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Dinner/Party (Multi-purpose Room, Rutgers Student Center CAC)
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Sunday, May 22 (Voorhees 105) |
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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 |
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| 11:00–11:40 |
Daniel Lassiter (NYU) Nouwen’s puzzle and a scalar semantics for obligations, needs, and requirements show abstract / download abstract |
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| 11:40–12:20 |
Walter Pedersen (McGill University) Implicit complements, paychecks and variable-free semantics show abstract / download abstract |
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| 12:20–12:50 | Coffee & Sandwiches | |
| 12:50–1:30 |
Emar Maier (University of Groningen) On the roads to de se show abstract / download abstract |
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| 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 show abstract / download abstract |
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| Peter Graff & Jeremy Hartman (MIT) Constraints on predication download abstract |
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| Hongyuan Dong & Mats Rooth (George Washington University & Cornell) A recursive phonology interface for WH-F alternative semantics download abstract |
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| Patrick Grosz (MIT) A uniform analysis for concessive at least and optative at least download abstract |
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Poster Session (Saturday May 21, 4:30–6:30, Multi-purpose Room, Rutgers Student Center CAC) |
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Luis Alonso-Ovalle & Paula Menendez-Benito (University of Massachusetts, Boston & University of Goettingen) Two types of epistemic indefinites: private ignorance vs. public indifference download abstract |
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Pranav Anand, Caroline Andrews, Donka Farkas, Kevin Reschke, & Matthew Wagers (UC Santa Cruz) Quantification-triggered inclusivization in plural interpretation download abstract |
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Corien Bary & Dag Haug (Radbound-Nijmegen & University of Oslo) Inter- and intrasentential anaphora: the case of the Ancient Greek participle download abstract |
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Maria Biezma (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Conditional inversion and givenness download abstract |
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Elena Castroviejo (University of Chicago) So as a weak degree modifier download abstract |
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Liz Coppock & David Beaver (University of Texas, Austin & Lund University) Sole sisters download abstract |
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Luka Crnič (MIT) Evaluativity and polarity download abstract |
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Ilaria Frana & Kyle Rawlins (University of Goettingen & Johns Hopkins University) Unconditional concealed questions and the nature of Heim’s ambiguity download abstract |
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Michael Gagnon & Alexis Wellwood (University of Maryland) Distributivity and modality: where each may go, every can’t follow download abstract |
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Peter Graff & Jeremy Hartman (MIT) Constraints on predication download abstract |
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Thomas Grano (University of Chicago) Mental action and event structure in the semantics of try download abstract |
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Vincent Homer (University of California, Los Angeles/École Normale Supérieure) On the dependent character of licensing download abstract |
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Gianina Iordachioaia & Elena Soare (Stuttgart University & University of Paris 8) A further insight into the syntax-semantics of pluractionality download abstract |
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Yu Izumi (University of Maryland) Interpreting bare nouns: type-shifting vs. silent heads download abstract |
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Ezra Keshet (University of Michigan) Contrastive focus and paycheck pronouns download abstract |
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Hadas Kotek, Yasutada Sudo, Edwin Howard, & Martin Hackl (MIT) Is most more than half? download abstract |
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Takeo Kurafuji (Ritsumeikan University) Japanese comparatives are semantically conjuncts: a dynamic view download abstract |
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Dave Kush (University of Maryland) Height-relative determination of (non-root) modal flavor: evidence from Hindi download abstract |
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Chungmin Lee & Myounghyoun Song (Seoul National University) CF-reduplication: dynamic prototypes and contrastive focus effects download abstract |
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Terje Lohndal (University of Maryland) The addicities of thematic separation download abstract |
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Qiong-peng Luo & Stephen Crain (Macquarie University) Uniqueness and co-variation in Chinese wh-conditionals download abstract |
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Ai Matsui (Michigan State University) On the licensing of understating NPIs download abstract |
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Lilia Rissman (Johns Hopkins University) Instrumental with and use: a unified modal analysis download abstract |
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Anastasia Smirnova (Ohio State University) Inferences about the future and gaps in evidential paradigms in Balkan languages download abstract |
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Sandhya Sundaresan (University of Tromsø (CASTL)/University of Stuttgart) A plea for syntax: monsters, agreement and de se download abstract |
