Main session

All the project pages are on the OSF repository for SuB25. You can search for keywords using the search function there.

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Invited presentations

Ana Arregui (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Video introduction by Angelika Kratzer
"The case of 'every' in the scope of 'might'"
abstract, project page

Lisa Bylinina (Leiden University and Bookarang.com)
Video introduction by Rick Nouwen
"Existence and plurality"
abstract, project page


Clemens Steiner-Mayr (University of Göttingen)
Video introduction by Gennaro Chierchia
"On the variability of context change potentials"
abstract, project page

Regular presentations (* = eligible for prize for best student presentation)

  1. Dorit Abusch & Mats Rooth, "Modalized normality in pictorial narratives", abstract, project page

  2. *Omri Amiraz, "A constraint on co-occurrence of proportional quantifiers and gradable predicates", abstract, project page

  3. Daniel Altshuler & Julian J. Schlöder, "If pictures are stative, what does this mean for discourse interpretation?", abstract, project page

  4. Sam Alxatib, "Innocent Inclusion and only", abstract, project page

  5. Peter Arkadiev & Ivano Caponigro, "Conveying content questions without wh-words: evidence from Abaza", abstract, project page

  6. *Josep Ausensi, "The semantics of roots determines argument structure", abstract, project page

  7. Josep Ausensi, Ryan Walter Smith & Jianrong Yu, "Directed motion entailments in the semantics of roots", abstract, project page

  8. Diti Bhadra & Arka Banerjee, "What gerunds tell us about deontic necessity", abstract, project page

  9. Dominique Blok & Jordan Chark, "Homogeneity and universal quantification in embedded questions", abstract, project page

  10. *Madeline Bossi, "N-effects are not-P-effects: Pronoun competition in Scottish Gaelic", abstract, project page

  11. M. Ryan Bochnak, Margit Bowler, Emily Hanink & Andrew Koontz-Garboden, "Degreefulness is the result of functional inventory, not a parameter", abstract, project page

  12. Sebastian Bücking & Edith Scheifele, "On tropes, states, and the selectional constraints of the copula werden in German", abstract, project page

  13. Dylan Bumford & Jessica Rett, "Rationalizing evaluativity", abstract, project page

  14. Elena Castroviejo & Laia Mayol, "Why premise questions?", abstract, project page

  15. WooJin Chung & Salvador Mascarenhas, "Epistemic modals as conditional evaluatives embodying Bayesian confirmation-theoretic reasoning", abstract, project page

  16. Luka Crnič, "Free choice, plurality, and variation", abstract, project page

  17. Micky Daniels & Yael Greenberg, "Even and Standards of Comparison", abstract, project page

  18. Milica Denič & Jakub Szymanik, "Differences in thresholds between most and more than half: semantics or pragmatics?", abstract, project page

  19. *Omri Doron, Ido Benbaji & Ruoan Wang, "Reduplication in Hebrew as a Diagnostic for Antonym Decomposition", abstract, project page

  20. Kevin Dorst & Matthew Mandelkern, "Good guesses: The pragmatics of uncertainty", abstract, project page

  21. Simona Di Paola, Nausicaa Pouscoulous & Filippo Domaneschi, "The development of presuppositions: Preschoolers’ understanding of regret and also", abstract, project page

  22. *Émile Enguehard, "What presupposition projection says about polar questions", abstract, project page

  23. Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, "Universal free choice from concessive conditionals", abstract, project page

  24. Anamaria Fălăuș & Andreea Nicolae, "Additive free choice items in unconditionals", abstract, project page

  25. Thom van Gessel & Alexandre Cremers, "Testing the distribution of pair-list questions with quantifiers", abstract, project page

  26. Daniel Goodhue, Jad Wehbe, Valentine Hacquard & Jeffrey Lidz, "The effect of intonation on the illocutionary force of declaratives in child comprehension", abstract, project page

  27. Matthew Gotham, "Event-related readings and degrees of difference", abstract, project page

  28. Patrick G. Grosz, Elsi Kaiser & Francesco Pierini, "Discourse anaphoricity and first-person indexicality in emoji resolution", abstract, project page

  29. Nina Haslinger & Viola Schmitt, "Counterfactual attitude contents and the semantics of plurals in belief contexts", abstract, project page

  30. *Moritz Igel, "Part-whole-modifiers and the *-operator", abstract, project page

  31. *Jens Hopperdietzel, "A manner requirement on causatives: Resultative compounds in Daakaka", abstract, project page

  32. Sarah Hye-yeon Lee & Elsi Kaiser, "When evidentiality meets subjectivity: Generalizability of opinions", abstract, project page

  33. *Paloma Jeretič, "Scaleless implicatures blocked by actuality entailments", abstract, project page

  34. *Boram Kim, "Concealed questions without meta-meta-questions", abstract, project page

  35. *Angelika Kiss & Roger Yu-Hsiang Lo, "Rhetorical wh-questions differing in inquisitiveness: Support from Mandarin prosody", abstract, project page

  36. Todor Koev, Cory Bill & Maryam Mohammadi, "Believe is strong but subjective: experimental evidence from hedging", abstract, project page

  37. Natasha Korotkova & Pranav Anand, "Find, must, and conflicting evidence", abstract, project page

  38. Xuping Li & Hongyong Liu, "Manifestation of kinds by nominal classifiers", abstract, project page

  39. Kristina Liefke, "Two types of English non-manner how-clauses", abstract, project page

  40. Mingming Liu & Yu'an Yang, "Modal wh-indefinites in Mandarin", abstract, project page

  41. Qiongpeng Luo, "Characterizing the simplex vs. complex adjectives in Mandarin", abstract, project page

  42. Mora Maldonado & Jennifer Culbertson, "Experimental evidence for shared primitives across person and spatial indexicals", abstract, project page

  43. Fabienne Martin, Hongyuan Sun, Hamida Demirdache & Jinhong Liu, "Why can one kill Rasputin twice in Mandarin?", abstract, project page

  44. Teodora Mihoc, "Modified numerals and polarity sensitivity: Between O(nly)DA and E(ven)σA", abstract, project page

  45. *Takanobu Nakamura, "Situation partition and shifted evaluation of distributivity", abstract, project page

  46. Andreea Nicolae, "Additive particles and their polarity", abstract, project page

  47. Rick Nouwen, "Positive modified form", abstract, project page

  48. Jérémy Pasquereau, "A unique operator for verbal pluractionality and numeral distributivity", abstract, project page

  49. Dmitry Privoznov, "Structural conditions on discourse anaphora", abstract, project page

  50. Ciyang Qing , "Zero or minimum degree? Rethinking minimum-standard gradable adjectives", abstract, project page

  51. Yael Sharvit, "Disjunction and (A)symmetry", abstract, project page

  52. Frank Sode, "A semantics for complement fulfilling conditionals with glad", abstract, project page

  53. Stephanie Solt & E. Cameron Wilson, "M-degree modifiers and polarity sensitivity", abstract, project page

  54. Giorgos Spathas, "Ratio modifiers and the scale structure of negative adjectives", abstract, project page

  55. *Frank Staniszewski, "A variable force analysis of positive polarity neg-raising modals", abstract, project page

  56. Anna Szmarowska & Benjamin Spector, "A puzzling ‘disjunction’ in Polish", abstract, project page

  57. Bob van Tiel & Elizabeth Pankratz, "Adjectival polarity and the processing of scalar implicatures", abstract, project page

  58. Tharanga Weerasooriya, "On deriving and canceling ignorance", abstract, project page

  59. Yoad Winter, "Karttunen logic for presupposition projection", abstract, project page

  60. *Muyi Yang, "Disambiguating two conditional construals: Evidence from the optionality of if", abstract, project page

  61. Xuetong Yuan, "Extracting commitment: the case of Mandarin rising ba-declaratives", abstract, project page

  62. Roberto Zamparelli, "Abstract noun conjunction", abstract, project page

  63. Regina Zieleke, "The incausality of dennoch and trotzdem", abstract, project page

  64. Sarah Zobel, "Quantificational variability effects with German größtenteils and implicit agents", abstract, project page