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MIT @ Theoretical Linguistics at Keio

The semantics conference Theoretical Linguistics at Keio was held at Keio University on March 14-16, 2o26. 

The following members of our community presented at the conference:

  • Cooper Roberts (3rd year): Part is part (plus pragmatics)
  • Viola Schmitt (faculty): Individuation across categories
  • Adèle Hénot-Mortier (PhD 2025): “Remind-me” presuppositions with iterated Speech Acts
  • Yasutada Sudo (PhD 2012)[UCL], Chris Davis & Tim Jantarungsee: Varieties of sortal restrictions: The case of ingestion verbs
  • Christopher Tancredi (PhD 1992)[Keio University]: Epistemic vs. Non-epistemic Modals in Subjective Semantics