The 9th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics was held in Stuttgart, September 24-26. Professor Kai von Fintel was an invited speaker and gave a presentation entitled How to do conditional things with words and Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (National University of Singapore; Phd 2014) talked about The semantics of the Mandarin focus marker shì.
Precision by Kai: “I wasn’t really talking to an empty auditorium.”