5/30 - 6/1, 2014
New York, New York
Program
Listed below is the schedule of talks and posters, with accompanying abstracts and handouts/slides, for SALT 24.
• A copy of the conference booklet with information, schedule, and abstracts can be
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Friday, May 30 • NYU LAW SCHOOL, GREENBERG LOUNGE
Saturday, May 31 • NYU LAW SCHOOL, GREENBERG LOUNGE
Sunday, June 1 • NYU LAW SCHOOL, GREENBERG LOUNGE
Talk Alternates
Tue Trinh and Andreas Haida, Building alternatives [abstract]
Hedde Zeijlstra (not presenting), Self-interveners: The case of universal quantifier PPIs [abstract]
Giorgos Spathas, Disentangling ‘own’: Evidence from association with focus [abstract / poster]
Posters
Jefferson Barlew, A new kind of definite: Uniqueness, salience, and the Bulu determiner ‘-tè’ [abstract / poster]
María Biezma, The grammar of discourse: The case of ‘then’ [abstract / poster]
M. Ryan Bochnak and Eva Csipak, A new metalinguistic degree morpheme [abstract / poster]
Fabrizio Cariani, Deontic modals and probabilities: One theory to rule them all? [abstract / poster]
Elizabeth Coppock and David Beaver, A superlative argument for a minimal theory of definiteness [abstract / poster]
Luka Crnič, Scope fixing, scope economy, and focus movement [abstract / poster]
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, Plural quantification and the homogeneity constraint [abstract / poster]
Patrick Elliott, Andreea Nicolae, and Yasutada Sudo, VP ellipsis without parallel binding: Towards a QUD
Timothy Grinsell, Unlikely imperfectives [abstract / poster]
Elena Herburger and Aynat Rubinstein, Is ‘more possible’ more possible in German? [abstract / poster]
Pauline Jacobson and Edward Gibson, On line processing of ACD gives no evidence for QR [abstract / poster]
Dilip Ninan, Taste predicates and the acquaintance inference [abstract / poster]
Yangsook Park, Indexicals and the long-distance reflexive ‘caki’ in Korean [abstract / poster]
Orin Percus and Yael Sharvit, Copular asymmetries in belief reports [abstract / poster]
Ciyang Qing and Michael Franke, Gradable adjectives, vagueness, and optimal language use: A speaker-
oriented model [abstract / poster]
Katsuhiko Sano and Yurie Hara, Conditional independence and biscuit conditional questions in dynamic
Paolo Santorio, Filtering semantics for counterfactuals [abstract / poster]
Gregory Scontras, Amount semantics [abstract / poster]
Stephanie Solt, An alternative account of imprecision [abstract / poster]
Lyn Tieu, Cory Bill, Jacopo Romoli, and Stephen Crain, Plurality inferences are scalar implicatures:
Evidence from acquisition [abstract]
Noortje Venhuizen, Johan Bos, Petra Hendriks, and Harm Brouwer, How and why conventional
implicatures project [abstract / poster / software]
Luis Vicente (not presenting), Expanding the typology of parenthetical ‘as’-clauses [abstract]
Matthijs Westera and Adrian Brasoveanu, Ignorance in context: The interaction of modified numerals and
8:00-9:20
9:20-10:40
10:40-11:00
11:00-12:00
12:00-1:30
1:30-2:50
2:50-3:10
3:10-6:00
5:00-7:00
Registration / Breakfast / Opening Remarks
Session Chair: Maria Piñango
• Roger Levy, Leon Bergen, and Noah Goodman, ‘Roses and flowers’: An informativeness
implicature in probabilistic semantics [abstract / slides]
• Marie-Christine Meyer, Grammatical uncertainty implicatures and Hurford’s constraint
[abstract]
Break
Session Chair: Lucas Champollion
• Lauri Karttunen (invited talk), Three ways of not being lucky [abstract / slides]
Lunch
Session Chair: Graeme Forbes
• Gillian Ramchand, Stativity and ‘present tense’ epistemics [abstract / handout]
• Daniel Lassiter, The weakness of ‘must’: In defense of a mantra [abstract / slides]
Break
Poster Session (DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS, 10 WASHINGTON PLACE – walking directions)
Wine and Cheese Reception, overlapping with the Poster Session (DEPARTMENT OF
LINGUISTICS, 10 WASHINGTON PLACE – walking directions)
8:30-9:00
9:00-10:00
10:00-10:20
10:20-12:20
12:20-2:00
2:00-3:20
3:20-3:40
3:40-5:00
5:00-5:10
5:10-6:10
6:10-6:30
7:00-11:00
Breakfast / Registration
Session Chair: Chris Barker
• Sarah Moss (invited talk), On the semantics of epistemic vocabulary [abstract]
Break
Session Chair: Barry Schein
• Yulia Zinova and Hana Filip, Meaning components in the constitution of Russian verbs:
Presuppositions or implicatures? [abstract / handout]
• Dag Haug, The anaphoric semantics of partial control [abstract / slides]
• Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten, Interpreting DP-modifying modal adverbs [abstract / handout]
Lunch
Session Chair: Anamaria Fălăuș
• Wataru Uegaki, Japanese-type alternative questions in a cross-linguistic perspective
• Margit Bowler, Conjunction and disjunction in a language without ‘and’ [abstract /
Break
Session Chair: Kristen Syrett
• Robert Grimm, Choonkyu Lee, Eva Poortman, and Yoad Winter, Evidence for non-
existential readings of locative indefinites [abstract / slides]
• Florian Schwarz, Presuppositions are fast, whether hard or soft - Evidence from the visual
world paradigm [abstract / slides]
Short Break
Session Chair: Roger Schwarzschild
• Emmanuel Chemla (invited talk), Logic in Grammar: An experimental investigation
Business Meeting
Dinner at Jing Fong Restaurant (walking directions)
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:30
10:30-10:50
10:50-12:10
12:10-12:20
12:20-1:00
Breakfast
Session Chair: Philippe Schlenker
• Valentine Hacquard (invited talk), Bootstrapping into attitudes [abstract / slides]
Break
Session Chair: Chungmin Lee
• Suzi Lima, All notional mass nouns are count nouns in Yudja [abstract / slides]
• Scott AnderBois, On the exceptional status of reportative evidentials [abstract / handout]
Short Break
Session Chair: James Pryor
• Chris Kennedy, Predicates and formulas: Evidence from ellipsis [abstract / slides]
