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MIT Linguistics @ SALT 36

The 36th meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) was held at the University of Buenos Aires on July 29 – 31, 2026.  Current and former members of our department at the conference included:

Faculty: 

Students:

  • Haoming Li & Yizhen Jiang: Infelicity of negated bare plurals: Not presupposition, but Partition by Exhaustification
  • James Xinyu Gu & Churong Jin: An unlikely semantics for ‘likely’

Alums: 

  • Michela Ippolito (PhD 2002)[University of Toronto] & Anastasia Tsilia (PhD 2026)[University of Illinois]: What if and its kin
  • Dmitry Privoznov (PhD 2021)[University of Göttingen]: Static semantics and “dynamic” pragmatics: Once more on double negation
  • Adèle Hénot-Mortier (PhD 2025)[Queen Mary University]: “Remind-me” presuppositions with iterated Speech Acts
  • Anna Carolina Almeida, Raimundo Cox-Casals & Michael Wagner (PhD 2005)[McGill]: Adjectival agreement is interpretable: Evidence from summative agreement in Mexican Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese
  • Paul Marty (PhD 2017)[University of Lisbon], Patrick Elliott, Alexandros Kalomoiros & Jacopo Romoli: Quantifying multiplicity
  • Paloma Jereti?, Itai Bassi (PhD 2021)[ZAS/Ben Gurion University], Aurore Gonzalez, Andreea Nicolae, Kazuko Yatsushiro & Uli Sauerland (PhD 1998)[ZAS]: Not all scalar implicatures are derived from utterable alternatives: evidence from child language acquisition
  • Sam Alxatib (PhD 2013)[CUNY]: Local contexts in formal alternatives
  • Vincent Rouillard (PhD 2023)[Laval University]: Until and Incremental Homogeinity