Last weekend, several MIT faculty, students, postdocs and alumni gave talks at Sinn und Bedeutung 22 in Potsdam. Danny Fox was an invited speaker, and gave a talk on Exhaustivity and the Presupposition of Questions. Other talks by members of our community and alums included:
Current MIT-ers:
- Itai Bassi (3rd year) and Ezer Rasin (5th year): Intensional-functional relative clauses with syntactic reconstruction (talk)
- Vincent Rouillard (first year) with Bernhard Schwarz (McGill): Presuppositional implicatures: Quantity or Maximize Presupposition? (poster)
- Sarah Zobel (postdoctoral associate, PhD ‘12 University of Tübingen): Capturing the interpretational possibilities of weak free adjuncts (talk)
Alumni:
- Pranav Anand (UCSC, PhD ‘06) with Natasha Korotkova (University of Tübingen): Acquaintance content and obviation (talk)
- Pranav Anand (UCSC, PhD ‘06) and Maziar Toosarvandani (UCSC, former visiting faculty): No explanation for the historical present: Temporal sequencing and discourse (talk)
- Valentine Hacquard (University of Maryland, PhD ‘06) with Saskia Brockmann (University of Tübingen), Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland) and Sara McConnell (University of Maryland): Children’s comprehension of pronouns and definites (talk)
- Despina Oikonomou (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, PhD ‘16): Imperatives: How minimal are they? (poster)
- Pritty Patel-Grosz (University of Oslo, PhD ‘12) and Patrick G. Grosz (University of Oslo, PhD ‘11) with Tejaswinee Kelkar and Alexander Refsum Jensenius (University of Oslo): Coreference and disjoint reference in the semantics of narrative dance (talk)
- Yasutada Sudo (UCL, PhD ‘12) and Alexandre Cremers (former visiting student) with Frances Kane (Ulster University), Lyn Tieu (Macquarie University), Lynda Kennedy (Ulster University), Raffaella Folli (Ulster University) and Jacopo Romoli (Ulster University): Testing theories of temporal inferences: Evidence from child language (poster)