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The Weekly Newsletter of MIT Linguistics

MIT at Sinn und Bedeutung

MIT Semantics is well represented at [*Sinn und Bedeutung*](http://www.ilg.uni-stuttgart.de/SuB13) this year. The conference is taking place September 30 to October 2 in Stuttgart, Germany. The MIT contributions are:

* Martin Hackl (who will join the MIT faculty next year), Jorie Koster-Moeller and Andrea Gottstein (Pomona College): [“Processing Opacity”](http://www.ilg.uni-stuttgart.de/SuB13/hackl-etal.pdf)
* Jacopo Romoli (Harvard University) and Yasutada Sudo (MIT): “*De re/de dicto* Ambiguity and Presupposition Projection”
* Marta Abrusan (Institut Jean Nicod, ENS — MIT alumn): “On *wh*-Islands”
* Luka Crnic and Tue Trinh (MIT): [“Remarks on Embedded Imperatives”](http://www.ilg.uni-stuttgart.de/SuB13/crnic_trinh.pdf)
* Raj Singh (MIT): “‘Maximise Presupposition!’ as Blind, Local Blocking”