2024

• 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. [handout]

  • 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 similarit
  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)