The 33rd meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 33) was hosted by the linguistics department at Yale University on May 12-14, 2023. MIT was represented by several current students and alumni:
- Johanna Alstott (first-year): Ordinal Numbers: Not Superlatives, but Modifiers of Superlatives
- Ido Benbaji (fourth-year): Is nothing irreplaceable? A substitution theory of de re
- Omri Doron (fourth-year): Another look at the Mapping Hypothesis: evidence from Hebrew
- Yash Sinha (fourth-year): Number morphology in Hindi coordinative compounds
- Tuệ Trịnh (PhD, 2011): Contextual bias anti-licenses NPIs in polar questions
- Deniz Özyıldız & Wataru Uegaki (PhD, 2015): Two kinds of question-embedding strategies & veridicality alternations
- Luis Alonso-Ovalle & Aaron Hirsh (PhD, 2017): Weakening is external to ‘only’
