Over the weekend, Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 27 was held at the University of Maryland. On May 11, there was a workshop on Meaning and Distribution at UMD as well. MIT was represented at both!
Pranav Anand (PhD ‘06) was an invited speaker at SALT, and spoke on Facts, alternatives, and alternative facts, and Beth Levin (PhD ‘83 EECS) was an invited speaker at the workshop, and spoke on The Elasticity of Verb Meaning Revisited. In addition, MIT had several students, alumni, and faculty presenting both talks and posters.
Talks
- Athulya Aravind (5th year) & Martin Hackl (faculty) – Against a unified account of obligatory trigger effects: Evidence from acquisition
- Moshe Bar-Lev & Danny Fox (faculty) – Universal free choice and innocent inclusion
- Matthew Mandelkern (5th year, Philosophy), Jérémy Zehr, Jacopo Romoli & Florian Schwarz – Asymmetry in presupposition projection: The case of conjunction
- Yasutada Sudo (PhD ‘12) & Jacopo Romoli – Lifetime effects as presuppositional scalar strengthening
Posters
- Rachel Dudley, Meredith Rowe, Valentine Hacquard (PhD ‘06) and Jeffrey Lidz – Discovering the factivity of know from its distribution
- Patrick Elliott, Andreea Nicolae and Uli Sauerland (PhD ‘98) – Who and what do who and what range over cross-linguistically?
- Yasutada Sudo (PhD ‘12) – It’s not always redundant to assert what is presupposed
- Lyn Tieu, Robert Pasternak (current visitor), Philippe Schlenker (PhD ‘99) and Emmanuel Chemla – Co-speech gestures: Experimental evidence for projection and local accommodation