MIT Linguistics was well represented at the 29th iteration of the Sinn und Bedeutung conference, held between 17-19 September in Noto, Italy. Current students, faculty, and alumni presented talks and posters (posters mentioned for current students only, more at conference website):
- Danfeng Wu (PhD ‘22): Why not numeral NP requires but but not not many NP
- Sam Alxatib (PhD ‘13) – with Andreea Nicolae: FC with discourse referents: the curious case of any
- Jad Wehbe, Omri Doron (current graduate students): Diagnosing the presuppositional properties of global and embedded implicatures
- Jad Wehbe (current graduate student): On the scope of together
- Despina Oikonomou (PhD ‘16) – with Vina Tsakali, Alexandra Samarentsi, Benedict Vassileiou: Temporal interpretation in Directive Speech Acts: A competition between imperative and 2nd-person subjunctive in Greek
- Wataru Uegaki (PhD ‘15) – with Anne Mucha, Mary Amaechi, Tim Jantarungsee: Disjunction with additives
- Omri Doron (current graduate student) – with Omri Amiraz: Definite plurals in comparatives
- Patrick G. Grosz (PhD ‘11) – with Mailin Antomo, Lea Fricke, Tatjana Scheffler: Lying and commitment with (not-)at-issue emojis
- Orin Percus (PhD ‘97) – with Mora Maldonado: Another look at contrafactive predicates: The case of Spanish creerse
- Keny Chatain (PhD ‘21) – with Benjamin Spector: Readings of pronouns across connectives are sensitive to monotony
- Paul Marty (PhD ‘17) – with Omri Amiraz, Patrick Elliott, Guillermo Del Pinal, Jacopo Romoli: Homogeneity in non-monotonic contexts
- Adèle Hénot-Mortier (current graduate student): Redundancy under Discussion (Poster)
- Johanna Alstott (current graduate student): On very-intensified superlatives (Poster)
- Haoming Li (current graduate student): The case for the strong and conditional analysis of permission (Poster)
- Anastasia Tsilia (current graduate student): (In)direct evidential futures in Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian (Poster)
- Adèle Hénot-Mortier (current graduate student): Unifying the French evidential construction on di(rai)t que (Poster)
The following department members also presented talks in post-event workshops:
In the workshop: Does semantics have a too many tools problem?
- Ido Benbaji-Elhadad (current graduate student): Worlds, times and the fate of ontological symmetry
- Amir Anvari (faculty): Indefinites as Indexed Definites
- Adèle Hénot-Mortier (current graduate student): One tool to rule them all? An integrated model of the QuD for Hurford sentences
In the workshop: Evidentials in non-canonical speech acts
- Michela Ippolito (PhD ‘02) – with Crystal Chen: `Gosh, how X is that?! The case of Exclamative-Interrogatives
- Danfeng Wu (PhD ‘22): Corrective markers bing and you in Mandarin Chinese
Congratulations to all presenters for their work!