The program for the 21st annual meeting of the conference “Semantics and Linguistic Theory” (SALT 21) — to be held at Rutgers May 20 - May 22, 2011 — was announced last week. Here are the speakers with MIT connections:<\/p>\n
* Guillaume Thomas<\/strong>: Another<\/em> and the Meaning of Measure Phrases This is a great showing at the most selective conference in the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The program for the 21st annual meeting of the conference “Semantics and Linguistic Theory” (SALT 21) — to be held at Rutgers May 20 - May 22, 2011 — was announced last week. Here are the speakers with MIT connections: * Guillaume Thomas: Another and the Meaning of Measure Phrases * Igor Yanovich: The Problem […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555","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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2568,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions\/2568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n* Igor Yanovich<\/strong>: The Problem of Counterfactual de re Attitudes
\n* Micha Y. Breakstone<\/strong>, Alexandre Cremers, Danny Fox<\/strong> and Martin Hackl<\/strong>: Processing Degree Operator Movement: Implications for Semantics of Differentials
\n* Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo<\/strong> and Jesse Snedeker: An Experimental Investigation of Presupposition Projection in Conditional Sentences
\n* Peter Graff<\/strong> & Jeremy Hartman<\/strong>: Constraints on Predication [alternate; poster session]
\n* Patrick Grosz<\/strong>: A Uniform Analysis for Concessive “at least” and Optative “at least” [alternate]
\n* Luka Crni?<\/strong>: Evaluativity and Polarity [poster session]
\n* Hadas Kotek<\/strong>, Yasutada Sudo<\/strong>, Edwin Howard<\/strong> & Martin Hackl<\/strong>: Is Most More Than Half? [poster session]
\n* Ezra Keshet<\/strong> (PhD 2008): Contrastive Focus and Paycheck Pronouns [poster session]
\n* Pranav Anand<\/strong> (Phd 2006), Caroline Andrews, Donka Farkas, Kevin Reschke & Matthew Wagers: Quantification-triggered Inclusivization in Plural Interpretation [poster session]
\n* Luis Alonso-Ovalle<\/strong> & Paula Menendez-Benito<\/strong> (former visiting professors): Two Types of Epistemic Indefinites: Private Ignorance vs. Public Indifference [poster session]<\/p>\n