{"id":8642,"date":"2016-09-12T05:08:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T09:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=8642"},"modified":"2016-09-12T09:10:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T13:10:56","slug":"mit-sinn-und-bedeutung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/09\/12\/mit-sinn-und-bedeutung\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT @ Sinn und Bedeutung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 21st edition of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/sinnundbedeutung21\">Sinn und Bedeutung<\/a><\/strong> was hosted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/ppls.ed.ac.uk\/\">School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences<\/a> at the University of Edinburgh, on September 4&#8212;6. Several MIT students, alumni and visitors gave talks or presented posters.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Floris Roelofsen &amp; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wataruu.wordpress.com\">Wataru Uegaki<\/a><\/strong> (PhD &#8216;15) &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzaW5udW5kYmVkZXV0dW5nMjF8Z3g6NGM3ZTFiOWFiNjNkNjJlZA\" target=\"_blank\">Ignorance and the selectional restrictions of inquisitive predicates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zas.gwz-berlin.de\/mitarbeiter_meyer.html\">Marie-Christine Meyer<\/a><\/strong> (PhD &#8216;13) &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzaW5udW5kYmVkZXV0dW5nMjF8Z3g6MzhlZjM3ZDhiMzk3ODVkZQ\" target=\"_blank\">Contrastive topic and local weakening SIs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/individual.utoronto.ca\/ippolito\/Home.htm\">Michela Ippolito<\/a><\/strong> (PhD &#8216;02) &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzaW5udW5kYmVkZXV0dW5nMjF8Z3g6MThiZGFhYmNlYjRjOTYyOQ\" target=\"_blank\">On the embeddability of epistemic modals<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Itai Bassi<\/strong> (2nd-year graduate student) &amp; Moshe E. Bar-Lev &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzaW5udW5kYmVkZXV0dW5nMjF8Z3g6MzUwZGNiNzI5NzM1MGVkYg\" target=\"_blank\">A unified existential semantics for bare conditionals<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heddezeijlstra.org\/\">Hedde Zeijlstra<\/a><\/strong> (visiting assistant professor &#8216;09; visiting scholar &#8216;14) &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzaW5udW5kYmVkZXV0dW5nMjF8Z3g6OTJhNzM0ZWNkNTc3MzY\" target=\"_blank\">Strong vs. weak NPIs and PPIs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.berkeley.edu\/~ardeal\/index.html\">Amy Rose Deal<\/a><\/strong> (current visiting scholar) &amp; Julia Nee &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzaW5udW5kYmVkZXV0dW5nMjF8Z3g6M2UyYmJmZWUwZTFjMzNkZQ\" target=\"_blank\">Number marking and bare noun interpretation in Teotitl\u00e1n del Valle Zapotec<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gc.cuny.edu\/Page-Elements\/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives\/Doctoral-Programs\/Linguistics\/People\/Faculty\"><strong>Sam Alxatib<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(PhD &#8216;13) &amp; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/natashaivlieva\/\">Natasha Ivlieva<\/a><\/strong> (PhD &#8216;13) &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzaW5udW5kYmVkZXV0dW5nMjF8Z3g6NWViOTFkMTUyMzVhOTRlYg\" target=\"_blank\">Van Benthem&#8217;s problem, exhaustification, and distributivity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mitcho.com\">Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine<\/a><\/strong> (PhD&#8217; 14) &amp; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hkotek.com\">Hadas Kotek<\/a><\/strong> (PhD &#8216;14) &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzaW5udW5kYmVkZXV0dW5nMjF8Z3g6MmExYWE3OTEzNzJmNjA0Mg\">Untangling <i>Tanglewood<\/i> using covert focus movement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hirsch.mit.edu\/\"><strong>Aron Hirsch<\/strong><\/a> (5th-year graduate student) &#8212;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzaW5udW5kYmVkZXV0dW5nMjF8Z3g6YzMxMTI2YjUzMzZkZjk1\" target=\"_blank\">Disjoined questions as mention-some questions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ezrakeshet.com\/\"><strong>Ezra Keshet<\/strong><\/a> (PhD &#8216;08) &#8212;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzaW5udW5kYmVkZXV0dW5nMjF8Z3g6NzY5NDAyYzFlZDllNzU1Mw\" target=\"_blank\">Dynamic Update Anaphora Logic (DUAL)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/people.ucsc.edu\/~panand\/\"><strong>Pranav Anand<\/strong><\/a> (PhD &#8216;06) &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.ucsc.edu\/~mtoosarv\/\"><strong>Maziar Toosarvandani<\/strong><\/a> (former postdoc\u00a0&#8217;11-13) &#8212;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzaW5udW5kYmVkZXV0dW5nMjF8Z3g6M2NjMDg5MDE5YTNjYjQ3Mw\" target=\"_blank\">Unifying Canonical, Historical, and Play-by-Play Present<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wataruu.wordpress.com\/\"><strong>Wataru Uegaki<\/strong><\/a> (PhD &#8216;15) &#8212;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzaW5udW5kYmVkZXV0dW5nMjF8Z3g6NjMwZWZlNjdhMGQ3ODM5Ng\" target=\"_blank\">Japanese alternative questions and a unified in-situ semantics for<i>ka<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mit.academia.edu\/DanielMargulis\"><strong>Daniel Margulis<\/strong><\/a> (3rd-year graduate student) &#8212;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzaW5udW5kYmVkZXV0dW5nMjF8Z3g6NTU1OTUyMWQyZmFiYTY2\" target=\"_blank\">Expletive negation as a decomposed <i>only<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zas.gwz-berlin.de\/mitarbeiter_sauerland.html\"><strong>Uli Sauerland<\/strong><\/a> (PhD &#8216;98) &amp; Kazuko Yatsushiro &#8212;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzaW5udW5kYmVkZXV0dW5nMjF8Z3g6ZDZjNTZkNmRjNTVhOGQx\" target=\"_blank\">Conjunctive disjunctions: Evidence for the ambiguity theory<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/milopb\/www\/\">Milo Phillips-Brown<\/a><\/strong> (MIT philosophy graduate student) &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzaW5udW5kYmVkZXV0dW5nMjF8Z3g6MzJmN2M3ZTE2M2I4MzRlMQ\" target=\"_blank\"><i>I want to, but&#8230;<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mandelk.mit.edu\/\">Matthew Mandelkern<\/a><\/strong> (MIT philosophy graduate student) &amp; Jacopo Romoli &#8212;\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzaW5udW5kYmVkZXV0dW5nMjF8Z3g6NzMzODRmMjcwYjYwOTZlOA\" target=\"_blank\">Parsing, presuppositions, and structure in the calculation of local contexts<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Aron Hirsch<\/strong>, Florian Schwarz, &amp; J\u00e9r\u00e9my Zehr &#8212;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzaW5udW5kYmVkZXV0dW5nMjF8Z3g6NGYwY2I2ODZhYTZkNWE2Mw\" target=\"_blank\">Presupposition projection from disjunction in online processing<\/a>\u00a0(poster)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 21st edition of Sinn und Bedeutung was hosted by the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, on September 4&#8212;6. Several MIT students, alumni and visitors gave talks or presented posters. Floris Roelofsen &amp; Wataru Uegaki (PhD &#8216;15) &#8212; Ignorance and the selectional restrictions of inquisitive predicates Marie-Christine Meyer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8642"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8676,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642\/revisions\/8676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}