Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 18 will take place March 21-23, 2008 at UMass Amherst. The [program](http://umass.edu/linguist/events/salt18/program.shtml) includes the following MIT people:
* Jon Gajewski (UConn): More on quantifiers in comparative clauses
* Paul Elbourne (Queen Mary, University of London): Implicit content and the argument from binding
* Marta Abrusan (Institut Jean-Nicod/Collegium Budapest): Islands of contradiction: Presuppositional and negative interveners
* Jon Nissenbaum (McGill) & Bernhard Schwarz (McGill): The scope of ‘too’ with gapped infinitival clauses (Poster)
* Alan Bale (Concordia) & Hrayr Khanjian (MIT): Armenian classifiers and number marking (Poster)
* Ezra Keshet (MIT): Only the strong: Restricting situation variables (Poster)
* Pranav Anand (UC Santa Cruz) & Valentine Hacquard (Maryland): Epistemics, embedding, and sentience: A case for information states (Poster)
And last but not least, Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod/NYU) is giving an invited lecture on “Local contexts”.