Meetings

Spring 2025 

• February 3:  No meeting

• February 10:  Yunhui Bai on how to derive the non-triviality of might or might not p [description] 

• February 17:  Utku Turk and Aron Hirsch on syntactic alternatives in Turkish polar questions [description] 

• February 24:  SuB clinic

• March 3:  No meeting

• March 10:  Fedya Golosov on bare plurals in Kazym Khanty

• March 17:  No meeting

• March 24:  Paolo Santorio on local context as a variable

• March 31: Mal Shah on partitives and comparatives

• April 7: Mayfest meeting

• April 14:  Yunhui Bai presents joint work w/ Caleb Kendrick on domain restriction of modals in disjunctions

• April 21:  Elizabeth Swanson on intensional transitive verbs

• April 28:  No meeting

• May 5: Will Zumchak on obligatory scalar implicatures and "Equivalency Oddness"

• May 12:  No meeting

Fall 2024 

• August 28:  Yunhui Bai on the non-veridicality of will 

• September 4:  Fedya Golosov on Bare duals in Kazym Khanty

• September 11:  Sarah Boukendour on conditional perfection

• September 18:  Ellen Lau on kinds and noun meanings

• September 25:  Justin Helms on information structure and presupposition projection

• October 2: Elizabeth Swanson on temporal orientation and diversity condition

• October 9:  Luisa Seguin on exclusive constructions

• October 16: No meeting

• October 23: Paolo Santorio on counterfactual future-less-vivid conditionals

• October 30: Mal Shah talks about epistemic readings of future morphology in Gujarati

• November 6: Chenhao Lu talks about a problem with factivity of modal knowledge

• November 13: David Boylan (Glasgow) presents his work on how to axiomatise the restrictor view of the conditional

• November 20: Matthew Shi on ignorance inference and the K-operator

• November 27: No meeting

• December 4: Caleb Kendrick and Yunhui Bai discuss whether there are anankastic disjunctions

Spring 2024 

• February 2:  Caleb Kendrick on epistemic containment via local contexts 

• February 9:  Paolo Santorio talks possibility presupposition under quantifiers 

• February 13:  Yunhui Bai on the existential force of will

• February 20:  Aron Hirsch on constraining alternatives 

• February 27:  Fedya Golosov on existential bare duals in Kazym Khanty

• March 12: Sarah Boukendour on Conditional Perfection

• April 9:  Jingyi Chen on anankastic conditionals

• April 16: Elizabeth Swanson on temporal orientation and the acquisition of attitude verbs

• April 23: Fabrizio Cariani updates us on anankastic conditionals and the reason-based analysis of deontic modals

• April 30: Jéssica Mendes talks about modal anaphora in conditionals

• May 7: Omar Agha on focus and non-minimal plural definites

Fall 2023
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• August 31: Fedya Golosov on the dual number in Kazym Khanty

• September 7: Jéssica Mendes on the temporal interpretation of 'would'

• September 14: Caleb Kendrick, more on the monotonicity of desire ascriptions

• September 21: Organizational meeting

• September 28: Paolo Santorio gives us a primer on local contexts

• October 5: Paolo presents the current version of his work on X-marking

• October 19: Yunhui Bai, on believing and wondering

• October 26: Guest talk by Guillermo del Pinal (UMASS) on Presuppositional Exhaustification

• November 16: SALT abstract clinic

• November 30: Sarah Boukendour, TBA

Summer 2023 

• August 16:  On Barwise and Cooper's "Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language" by E. Keenan 

• August 2: On Heim's "On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions" by Mandy Simons

• July 19: Paolo Santorio presents "On Abusch's 'Sequence of Tense and Temporal de re" by Ana Arregui

• July 5: On Groenendijk and Stokhof’s “Dynamic Predicate Logic” by Anthony S. Gillies

• June 21 [research presentation]: Caleb Kendrick wonders if a hotdog is a sandwich

• June 7: On Stalnaker’s “Indicative Conditionals” by Fabrizio Cariani

Spring 2023

• May 8: Fabrizio Cariani presents 'Anankastic conditionals and the reason-based analysis of deontic modals'

• May 1: Jingyi Chen presents 'Anankastic conditionals are modal subordination'

• April 24: Lydia Quevedo on Neg-raising

• April 17: Paolo Santorio presents 'X-marking and the modal past'

• April 10: Jéssica Mendes, on Future Oriented Relative Clauses

• March 27: Caleb Kendrick on the proviso problem

• March 13: Guest talk by Samuel Wolf Cantor, from the University of Texas at Austin

• February 27:  Guest talk by Nicholas Fleisher, from the University of Wisconson at Milwaukee

• February 20: Mal Shah on closing events

• February 13: Fedya Golosov on the semantics of the light verb pɨr in Chuvash

• February 6:  Organizational meeting

• January 30: Caleb Kendrick on the (non)monotonicity of desire ascriptions

Fall 2022 

• December 14: Caleb Kendrick on Acquaintance Inferences (practice talk for the Amsterdam Colloquium)

• December 7: SALT abstract clinic

• December 1st: Utku Turk presents 'Hypothetical Comparisons' 

• November 16: Fabrizio Cariani on evidential constraints and projection 

• November 2: Sarah Boukendour presents 'On the road to perfection'

• October 26:  Mal Shah on locality domains for semantics

• October 12: Paolo Santorio presents 'Towards a theory of X-marking'

• September 28:  Fedya Golosov on the light verb tək, in Chuvash 

• September 21: Caleb Kendrick's practice talk on ability modals

• September 7: Introductions + Jéssica Mendes argues for an existential semantics for habituals

Spring 2022

• May 4: Caleb Kendrick presents (unrelated) ongoing work on ability modals

• April 27:  Paolo Santorio presents ongoing work on ability modals

• April 20: Clara Cuonzo delivers a practice talk for Romance Languages: Recent contributions to linguistic theory

• April 13: Fedya Golosov delivers a practice talk for ECO5

• March 30:  Hisao Kurokami leads a discussion of Athulya Aravind's dissertation (chapters 1 and 2), in preparation for her colloquium talk

• March 16:  Fabrizio Cariani on a survey paper on tense and modality

• March 9:  Paul Portner (Georgetown) presents Speaking Frankly

• March 2: Dan Goodhue on embedding under the complementizer to in Japanese

• February 23: Paolo Santorio and Alexis Wellwood (USC) present ongoing experimental work on conditionals and probability

• February 9:  Fedya Golosov on the dual number in Kazym Khanty

• February 2:  Clara Cuonzo leads a discussion of McReady 2012

Fall 2021

• December 14 [bonus session]: Fabrizio Cariani presents a paper on confidence reports with Paolo Santorio and Alexis Wellwood [part 2]

• December 13: Dan Goodhue delivers a practice talk on the acquisition of non-canonical clause types

• November 29: Fabrizio Cariani presents a paper on confidence reports with Paolo Santorio and Alexis Wellwood [part 1]

• November 22: Yu'an Yang on  modal indefinites in Mandarin

• November 15: SALT abstract clinic

• November 8: Raven Zhang on the Hurford Constraint

• November 1: Caleb Kendrick on Karttunen's Problem

• October 25: Paolo Santorio presents a proposal for a mereological treatment of the perfective

• October 18: Paolo Santorio provides an introduction to a mereological treatment of aspect

• October 4: Jingyi Chen presents Imperatives as Fragment Answers

• September 27: Jéssica Mendes leads a discussion of Alonso Ovalle & Menéndez-Benito 2020

• September 20: Dan Goodhue presents Aren’t there multiple causes of bias in polar questions? [Part 2]

• September 13: Introductions + Dan Goodhue presents Aren’t there multiple causes of bias in polar questions? [Part 1]