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—6. Several MIT students, alumni and visitors gave talks or presented posters.
- Floris Roelofsen & Wataru Uegaki (PhD ‘15) — Ignorance and the selectional restrictions of inquisitive predicates
- Marie-Christine Meyer (PhD ‘13) — Contrastive topic and local weakening SIs
- Michela Ippolito (PhD ‘02) — On the embeddability of epistemic modals
- Itai Bassi (2nd-year graduate student) & Moshe E. Bar-Lev — A unified existential semantics for bare conditionals
- Hedde Zeijlstra (visiting assistant professor ‘09; visiting scholar ‘14) — Strong vs. weak NPIs and PPIs
- Amy Rose Deal (current visiting scholar) & Julia Nee — Number marking and bare noun interpretation in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec
- Sam Alxatib (PhD ‘13) & Natasha Ivlieva (PhD ‘13) — Van Benthem’s problem, exhaustification, and distributivity
- Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (PhD’ 14) & Hadas Kotek (PhD ‘14) — Untangling Tanglewood using covert focus movement
- Aron Hirsch (5th-year graduate student) — Disjoined questions as mention-some questions
- Ezra Keshet (PhD ‘08) — Dynamic Update Anaphora Logic (DUAL)
- Pranav Anand (PhD ‘06) & Maziar Toosarvandani (former postdoc ’11-13) — Unifying Canonical, Historical, and Play-by-Play Present
- Wataru Uegaki (PhD ‘15) — Japanese alternative questions and a unified in-situ semantics forka
- Daniel Margulis (3rd-year graduate student) — Expletive negation as a decomposed only
- Uli Sauerland (PhD ‘98) & Kazuko Yatsushiro — Conjunctive disjunctions: Evidence for the ambiguity theory
- Milo Phillips-Brown (MIT philosophy graduate student) — I want to, but…
- Matthew Mandelkern (MIT philosophy graduate student) & Jacopo Romoli — Parsing, presuppositions, and structure in the calculation of local contexts
- Aron Hirsch, Florian Schwarz, & Jérémy Zehr — Presupposition projection from disjunction in online processing (poster)