{"id":11180,"date":"2018-06-04T06:06:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T10:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11180"},"modified":"2018-06-04T12:03:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T16:03:54","slug":"salt-mit-and-mit-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/06\/04\/salt-mit-and-mit-salt\/","title":{"rendered":"SALT @ MIT and MIT @ SALT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) conference <a href=\"https:\/\/salt28mit.org\/\">took place last weekend (5\/18-20) at MIT<\/a>.\u00a0 A number\u00a0of current and recent members of our department, in addition to quite a few less-recent ones, gave talks and presented posters. Those include:<\/p>\n<p>Current members -\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/smoracc\/\">Sophie\u00a0Moracchini<\/a> (5th-year): &#8220;Evaluativity and structural competition&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nfrancis.scripts.mit.edu\/web\/\">Naomi Francis<\/a><\/strong> (4th-year): &#8220;presupposition-denying uses of\u00a0<em>even<\/em>&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kenyc.github.io\/\">Keny Chatain<\/a> (2nd-year): &#8220;Gaps in the interpretation of pronouns&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/huji.academia.edu\/MosheElyashivBarLev\">Moshe E. Bar-Lev<\/a> (visiting student): &#8220;An implicature account of homogeneity and non-maximality&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Recent alumni -\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hirsch.mit.edu\/\">Aron Hirsch<\/a> (2017) and Luis Alonso-Ovalle: &#8220;keep <em>only<\/em> strong&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zas.gwz-berlin.de\/mitarbeiter_marty.html\">Paul Marty<\/a> (2017): &#8220;Towards an Implicature-Based Account of Disjoint Reference&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mitcho.com\/\">Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine<\/a> (2014) and Keely New: &#8220;The expression of exhaustivity and scalarity in Burmese&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wataruu.wordpress.com\/\">Wataru Uegaki<\/a>\u00a0(2015): &#8220;The problem of presupposition projection in question-embedding&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Wataru Uegaki and\u00a0Floris Roelofsen: &#8220;Do modals take propositions or questions? Evidence from Japanese&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The conference was a great success, not only because of the high quality of presented work, but also due to the wonderful organizing team headed by Kai von Fintel.\u00a0 Thank you Kai and everyone else!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) conference took place last weekend (5\/18-20) at MIT.\u00a0 A number\u00a0of current and recent members of our department, in addition to quite a few less-recent ones, gave talks and presented posters. Those include: Current members -\u00a0 Sophie\u00a0Moracchini (5th-year): &#8220;Evaluativity and structural competition&#8221; Naomi Francis (4th-year): &#8220;presupposition-denying uses of\u00a0even&#8221; Keny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11180"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11199,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180\/revisions\/11199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}