{"id":16525,"date":"2024-10-07T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16525"},"modified":"2024-10-06T23:03:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T03:03:36","slug":"mit-linguistics-sub-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2024\/10\/07\/mit-linguistics-sub-29\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Linguistics @ SUB 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/sub29.unime.it\">website<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Danfeng Wu (PhD &#8216;22): <i>Why \u0093not numeral NP\u0094 requires \u0093but\u0094 but not \u0093not many NP\u0094<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Sam Alxatib (PhD &#8216;13) - with Andreea Nicolae: <i>FC with discourse referents: the curious case of \u0091any\u0092<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Jad Wehbe, Omri Doron (current graduate students): <i>Diagnosing the presuppositional properties of global and embedded implicatures<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Jad Wehbe (current graduate student):<i>\u00a0On the scope of together<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Despina Oikonomou (PhD &#8216;16) - with Vina Tsakali, Alexandra Samarentsi, Benedict Vassileiou:<i>\u00a0<\/i><i>Temporal interpretation in Directive Speech Acts: A competition between imperative and 2nd-person subjunctive in Greek<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Wataru Uegaki (PhD &#8216;15) - with Anne Mucha, Mary Amaechi, Tim Jantarungsee: <i>Disjunction with additives<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Omri Doron (current graduate student) - with Omri Amiraz: <i>Definite plurals in comparatives<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Patrick G. Grosz (PhD &#8216;11) - with Mailin Antomo, Lea Fricke, Tatjana Scheffler: <i>Lying and commitment with (not-)at-issue emojis<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Orin Percus (PhD &#8216;97) - with Mora Maldonado: <i>Another look at contrafactive predicates: The case of Spanish \u0091creerse\u0092<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Keny Chatain (PhD &#8216;21) - with Benjamin Spector: <i>Readings of pronouns across connectives are sensitive to monotony<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Paul Marty (PhD &#8216;17) - with Omri Amiraz, Patrick Elliott, Guillermo Del Pinal, Jacopo Romoli: <i>Homogeneity in non-monotonic contexts<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Ad\u00e8le H\u00e9not-Mortier (current graduate student): <em>Redundancy under Discussion\u00a0<\/em>(Poster)<\/li>\n<li>Johanna Alstott (current graduate student): <em>On \u0093very\u0094-intensified superlatives<\/em> (Poster)<\/li>\n<li>Haoming Li (current graduate student): <em>The case for the strong and conditional analysis of permission<\/em> (Poster)<\/li>\n<li>Anastasia Tsilia (current graduate student): <em>(In)direct evidential futures in Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian\u00a0<\/em>(Poster)<\/li>\n<li>Ad\u00e8le H\u00e9not-Mortier (current graduate student): <em>Unifying the French evidential construction on di(rai)t que <\/em>(Poster)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following department members also presented talks in post-event workshops:<\/p>\n<p>In the workshop: <strong>Does semantics have a too many tools problem?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ido Benbaji-Elhadad (current graduate student): <i>Worlds, times and the fate of ontological symmetry<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Amir Anvari (faculty): <i>Indefinites as Indexed Definites\u00a0<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Ad\u00e8le H\u00e9not-Mortier (current graduate student): <i>\u0093One tool to rule them all\u0094? An integrated model of the QuD for Hurford sentences<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the workshop:<strong> Evidentials in non-canonical speech acts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michela Ippolito (PhD &#8216;02) - with Crystal Chen:<i>\u00a0<\/i><i>`Gosh, how X is that?!\u0092 The case of Exclamative-Interrogatives<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Danfeng Wu (PhD &#8216;22): <i>Corrective markers \u0091bing\u0092 and \u0091you\u0092 in Mandarin Chinese<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Congratulations to all presenters for their work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT Linguistics was well represented at the 29th iteration of the Sinn und Bedeutung conference, held between 17-19 September in Noto, Italy. 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