NB: This schedule is preliminary and subject to change.
Friday, May 17
8:00-8:50 | Breakfast & Registration | |
8:50-9:00 | Welcome | |
Session 1 | ||
9:00-9:40 | Embedded Rising Declaratives | Deniz Rudin |
9:40--10:20 | The Search for Truth: Appositives Weigh In | Margaret Kroll and Amanda Rysling |
10:20-10:35 | Break | |
Session 2 | ||
10:35-11:15 | Modification of DPs by epistemic adverbs [handout] | Cleo Condoravdi, Mary Dalrymple, Dag Haug and Adam Przepiórkowski |
11:15-11:55 | Independence in distributivity | Jess H.-K. Law |
11:55-1:30 | Lunch + Pop-up Mentoring | |
Session 3 | ||
1:30-2:10 | Bias and Evidence. The case of the Evidential Future in Italian and Spanish | Ilaria Frana and Paula Menendez-Benito |
2:10-2:50 | Epistemic modals, deduction, and factivity | Teodora Mihoc, Diti Bhadra and Anamaria Falaus |
2:50-3:05 | Break | |
Session 4 | ||
3:05-3:45 | When-questions and tense in Inquisitive Semantics | Jos Tellings |
3:45-4:25 | Compositional Semantics for Clausal Exceptives | Ekaterina Vostrikova |
4:25-4:40 | Break | |
Invited Talk | ||
4:40-5:40 | On Presupposition Projection with Trivalent Connectives | Yoad Winter |
5:40-6:10 | SALT business meeting |
Saturday, May 18
8:30-9:00 | Breakfast & Registration | |
Invited Talk | ||
9:00-10:00 | Who's controlling who (or what) — evidence from embedded imperatives and other directives [handout] | Magdalena Kaufmann |
10:00-10:15 | Break | |
Poster Session | ||
10:15-11:00 | Lightning Round 1 | |
11:00-11:15 | Break | |
Session 1 | ||
11:15-11:55 | Neutralizing Free Choice Items via Domain Restriction: Farsi -i Indefinites | Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Esmail Moghiseh |
11:55-12:35 | Homogeneity or implicature: An experimental study of free choice | Lyn Tieu, Cory Bill and Jacopo Romoli |
12:35-2:00 | Lunch | |
Invited Talk | ||
2:00-3:00 | GIVENness and local contexts | Simon Charlow |
3:00-3:15 | Break | |
Poster Session | ||
3:15-4:00 | Lightning Round 2 | |
4:00-4:30 | Break + Happy Hour | |
4:30-6:30 | Posters on display | |
7:00-10:00 | Dinner at the UCLA Faculty Center, California Room (map here) |
Sunday, May 19
Session 1 | ||
9:00-9:40 | I can't believe it's not lexical: Deriving distibuted factivity [handout] | Tom Roberts |
9:40-10:20 | Factive islands from necessary blocking | Bernhard Schwarz, Alexandra Simonenko and David Oshima |
10:20-10:45 | Break | |
Session 2 | ||
10:45-11:25 | Counterfactual Biscuit Conditionals: a Temporal Remoteness Account | Eva Csipak and Maribel Romero |
11:25-12:05 | Diachronic Semantic Shift of Sequential Conjunction: the Causal to Conditional Path | Yurie Hara |
12:05-12:20 | Break | |
Invited Talk | ||
12:20-1:20 | Why we still don't need/want variables: Two SALTy case studies | Polly Jacobson |
Poster Alternates
Ryan Walter Smith, Mixtures and implicature in Persian m-reduplication
Jesse Harris, A Semantics and Pragmatics for Transparent Free Relatives