2026
Restricted Predicate Homogeneity.
SALT 36, University of Buenos Aires.
Italian pre-nominal modification as a window into semantic composition.
RALFe 2026, LLF (Paris Cité) & SFL (Paris 8)
2025
‘Ma se’ and ‘guarda che’, or two ways of signalling presupposition failure.
Guerrini, J. and Zani, E.
Going Romance 2025, University of Venice.
Discourse-marking and candidate context sets: the case of Italian ‘ma se’ and ‘guarda che’.
Guerrini, J. and Zani, E.
NELS 56, New York University.
Distributive kind predication.
(invited) Semantics colloquium, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Semantics reading group, New York University.
2024
Italian pre-nominal modification as a window into semantic composition.
(invited) SynSem seminar, Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes, Nantes Université.
(invited) Semantics colloquium, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin.
Generalizations in child language: implicit and explicit adverbial quantification.
Guerrini, J., Kinnaird, K., Dever-Mendenhall, B., Aravind, A.
Boston University Conference on Language Development 49.
Pre-nominal modification in Italian as a window into the core meaning of color adjectives.
NELS 55, Yale University.
Plural Definites and Domain Restriction in Romance and Germanic – A new generalization regarding genericity, kind predication, and maximal reference
Guerrini, J., Spector, B.
Sinn und Bedeutung 29, CUMO, Noto.
Articulating gradability, dimension selection, and homogeneity in color adjectives.
3rd Workshop on Gaps and Imprecision in Natural Language Semantics, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft.
Revisiting kind predication.
(invited) Semantics Colloquium, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.
(invited) Seminar of the Linguistics Engineering Group, Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Numerous-like predicates in bare plural generics.
Guerrini, J. and Pinton, L. [equal contribution; alphabetical order]
2024 LSA Annual Meeting, New York.
2023
Revisiting kind predication.
Sinn und Bedeutung 28, Bochum.
Workshop on Homogeneity and Non-Maximality 2, Vienna.
(invited) Workshop on (In)definiteness across Languages, Yale University.
(invited) New York Philosophy of Language Workshop, NYU.
(invited) "Temi di Filosofia Analitica" seminar, University of Padua.
Homogeneity as presuppositional exhaustification.
Guerrini, J. and Wehbe, J. [equal contribution; alphabetical order]
Workshop on Homogeneity and Non-Maximality 2, Vienna.Kind predication, flavors of genericity, and cumulativity.
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 41, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Keeping ‘fake’ simple: a similarity-based theory.
North Eastern Linguistic Society 53, Göttingen.
2022
‘Like a N’ constructions: genericity in similarity
33rd European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information, Galway.
[Best poster award] (Poster) (Proceedings paper)
An explanation of representativeness: contrastive confirmation-theoretical reasoning motivated by question-answering dynamics.
Guerrini, J., Sablé-Meyer, M., and Mascarenhas, S.
CogSci 2022, Toronto.
(Poster)
“Seem like a N” constructions and genericity.
Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Università di Catania.
(Abstract)
2021
Reasoning with alternatives as Bayesian confirmation: revisiting the lawyers and engineers problem
Sablé-Meyer, M., Guerrini, J., and Mascarenhas, S.
International Conference on Thinking 2020 (held in 2021 online), Paris.
(abstract and video)
2019
Shifting centers: toward a unified view of grammatical and contingent privative modification.
Guerrini, J. and Mascarenhas, S.
Brain, Language, and Learning, Università di Siena
“Teeeeny” is better than “smaaall”: iconic lengthening and vowel quality.
Sinn und Bedeutung 24, Osnabrück
(Proceedings paper)
Linguistic inferences without words: the case for pro-speech vocal gestures,
Guerrini, J. and Schlenker, P.,
42nd GLOW (Generative Linguistics in the Old World) Conference, University of Oslo, Oslo.
(Abstract)