MIT students, visitors and alumni contributed 8 talks to Sinn und Bedeutung 16, which took place from September 6-8 in Utrecht. They are:
- Wataru Uegaki: Content nouns and the semantics of question-embedding predicates
- Patrick Grosz (PhD 2011): Optatives, minimal sufficiency and the two readings of “only”
- Micha Breakstone (recent visitor): Inherent evaluativity
- Sarah Ouwayda (recent visitor): Cardinals, agreement, and plurality in Lebanese Arabic
- Sophia Malamud & Tamina Stephenson (PhD 2007): Three ways to avoid commitments
- Sergei Tatevosov (recent visiting professor): Telicity, measures, and endpoints And at its satellite event, the workshop on degree semantics and its interfaces:
- Ora Matushansky (PhD 2002): On the morphosyntax of comparative semantics
- Edwin Howard: the most alternative analysis of superlative NPIs ever