Call for Papers

Theoretical Linguistics at Keio (TaLK)

Semantics Conference

Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

We are soliciting abstracts for 45-minute talks (plus 15 minutes for questions) on topics related to formal semantics.  Any topic related to formal semantics is acceptable.  The conference will be held at Keio University, Mita campus (Tokyo).  Abstracts will be reviewed by the organizing committee and the invited speakers.

Dates:  March 14-16, 2026

Invited Speakers:

         Veneeta Dayal, Yale

         Viola Schmitt, MIT

Organizing committee:

         Ikumi Imani, David Oshima, Junri Shimada, Christopher Davis, Joseph Tabolt, Muyi Yang, Yusuke Yagi, Yasutada Sudo, Christopher Tancredi

Abstracts should be a maximum of 2 pages written in a 12 point font, including examples and references.

Abstracts should be submitted to:  talk2026.keio@gmail.com

Deadline for submission is midnight, November 15th, Japan time.

Authors will be notified of acceptance by January 15th.

The conference web page can be found at:

                     https://sites.google.com/keio.jp/talk2026/

Saturday, March 14th

10:00-11:30  Viola Schmitt

                       Individuation across categories

11:30-12:30  Hee Joong Choi 

                       Speaker bias in commitment terms: evidential tense marking in Korean Long Negation Questions

Lunch

2:30-3:30      Kimiko Nakanishi 

                       Japanese Mo ‘even’ in Concessive Conditionals, Unconditionals, and Beyond

3:30-4:30      Arum Kang 

                       Definiteness without Articles: Donkey Anaphora in Korean and Mandarin Chinese

5:00-6:00      Takeo Kurafuji

                       The gather/numerous opposition and the semantics of -mo

6:00               Dinner reception (free for all participants)

Sunday, March 15th

10:00-11:00  Cooper Roberts 

                       Part is part (plus pragmatics)

11:00-12:00  Alexandros Kalomoiros & Patrick Elliott 

                       Trivalence and Incrementality

Lunch

1:30-2:30      Kenta Mizutani & Takanobu Nakamura

                       Assignment-set focus semantics and resolution asymmetry with even

2:30-3:30      Frank Sode 

                       The Use Conditions of Melioratives and Tense/Mood-Marking

4:00-5:00      Adèle Mortier  

                       “Remind-me” presuppositions with iterated Speech Acts

5:00-6:30      Veneeta Dayal

                       A Sortability-based Account of Anti-singularity in Questions

Monday, March 16th

Special Semantics Research Group session

1:00-2:00      Muyi Yang 

                       An additivity-based analysis of permission: The case of Japanese

2:00-3:00      Yasutada Sudo, Chris Davis & Tim Jantarungsee 

                       Varieties of sortal restrictions: The case of ingestion verbs

3:30-4:30      Joseph Tabolt 

                       Reference Time: Why Progressive Aspect Rejects Made but Accepts Until as Commander

4:30-5:30      Christopher Tancredi 

                       Epistemic vs. Non-epistemic Modals in Subjective Semantics

The conference is being held at Keio University, Mita campus, in the Conference Hall of the North Building (building 10 on the map).  Access information and maps can be found here.