Sinn und Bedeutung 30 (SuB30) took place at Goethe University Frankfurt from September 23-27, 2025. MIT Linguistics was well-represented by our current students and recent graduates:
- Paul Meisenbichler (3rd year): Upper limit effects beyond tenses and the interdependence of worlds and times
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Haoming Li (4th year), Yizhen Jiang (3rd year): Oddness and probability-sensitivity of number-marked indefinites in negation and questions
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Yurika Aonuki (4th year), Kathryn Davidson: On the QUD sensitivity of a third reading
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Yizhen Jiang (3rd year), Haoming Li (4th year), J. Cooper Roberts (3rd year): Passamaquoddy quantifiers: outlier of distributivity-number generalization?
- Adèle Hénot-Mortier (PhD 2025)[Queen Mary]: Covert operators are picked to minimize QuD-ambiguity: the view from pex and only
Several of our alumni also presented their work:
- Naomi Francis (PhD 2019)[University of Ottawa], Patrick Georg Grosz, Pritty Patel-Grosz: The FLING gesture asa marker of discoursestatus
- Keny Chatain (PhD 2021)[ENS]: Ignorance inferences andpresuppositions: a new Neo-Gricean challenge
- Despina Oikonomou (PhD 2016)[University of Crete]: Greek Directive Subjunctive Questions, High Negation Bias and Modality
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Paul Marty (PhD 2017)[Universidade de Lisboa], Guillermo Del Pinal, Patrick Elliott, Alexandros Kalomoiro, Jacopo Romoli: Presupposition projection in (non-)monotonic contexts
- Orin Percus (PhD 1997)[Nantes University]: Identity issues after Flight AF 006 (invited talk)
