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:
- Viola Schmitt gave an invited talk: Individuation, generalized
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