The 35th meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory was held at Harvard University on May 20-22, 2025. MIT linguistics was well represented by current students, faculty and visitors:
- Johanna Alstott (student): On aspectual coercion in ‘before’-clauses: Evidence from processing
- Danny Fox (faculty and alum!) & Yusutada Sudo (PhD 2012): Nested ‘which’-phrases and degenerate questions
- Nina Haslinger (visiting faculty): Constraining imprecision and implicature cancellation via structural alternatives
- Adèle Hénot-Mortier (student): Exh and only don’t really compete — they just answer different questions
- Jad Wehbe (student): Redundancy and presuppositional exhaustification
The following alums also presented their work:
- Keny Chatain (2021) and Dean McHugh: The parts of ‘only’
- Jon Gajewski (2005): Neg-raising, accessibility and propositional anaphora
- Filipe Hisao Kobayashi (2023): From NPs to predicates of individual concepts
- Paul Marty (2017), Patrick Elliott, Guillermo Del Pinal & Jacopo Romoli: Free Choice in (non-)monotonic contexts
- Isabelle Charnavel, Anouk Dieuleveut, Tom Meadows, David R. Müller & Dominique Sportiche (1983):Who am I to (dis)agree? Interpretation-sensitive agreement: Experimental evidence from French relatives
- Ciyang Qing, Deniz Özyıldız, Maribel Romero & Wataru Uegaki (2015): Wondering hopefully and fearfully: How do desires and inquisitive attitudes interact?
