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Thursday, May 12

Student Activity Center Ballroom, 2.410

8:45 - 9:10

Registration, coffee, and pastries

9:10 - 9:25

Opening remarks from Richard Meier, Linguistics Department Chair

9:25 - 10:55

Session 1

Cleo Condoravdi

Invited speaker, Lauri Karttunen: Presupposition: What went wrong?
Matthew Mandelkern: Dissatisfaction Theory [handout]

11:10 - 11:25

Coffee break

11:25 - 12:45

Session 2

Judith Tonhauser

James Collins: Reasoning about definiteness without articles
Sven Lauer: On the status of 'Maximize Presupposition'

12:45 - 2:00

Lunch (on your own)

2:00 - 3:30

Session 3

David Beaver

Manfred Krifka: A Presuppositional Analysis of Realis and Potentialis Modality in Daakie (Port Vato), Ambrym, Vanuatu [handout]
Invited speaker, Judith Tonhauser: The prosody of projection

3:30 - 3:45

Coffee break

3:45 - 5:15

Session 4

Stefan Kaufmann

Jérémy Zehr, Cory Bill, Lyn Tieu, Jacopo Romoli and Florian Schwarz: Presupposition projection from the scope of 'none': universal, existential, or both? [slides]
Invited speaker, Stanley Peters: Varieties of Speaker Commitment

5:30 - 7:00

Reception (Glickman Conference Center, CLA 1.302)

Friday, May 13

Blanton (Edgar A. Smith building, 2nd floor)

8:00 - 9:00

Registration, coffee, breakfast (tacos, pastries, fruit)

9:00 - 9:15

Opening remarks from Randy Diehl, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts

9:15 - 11:20

Session 1

Christopher Potts

Nadine Theiler, Floris Roelofsen and Maria Aloni: Towards a uniform account of responsive verbs
Mingming Liu: Mandarin wh-conditionals as interrogative conditionals
Ivano Ciardelli: Lifting conditionals to inquisitive propositions

11:20 - 11:45

Coffee break

11:45 - 12:30

Poster session lightning talks (on display 4:30 - 5:30)

Cleo Condoravdi

Clemens Mayr and Jacopo Romoli: Satisfied or exhaustified: an ambiguity account of the proviso problem
Jefferson Barlew: Coming to an understanding of some projective contents
Alda Mari: Epistemic attitudes and the Italian subjunctive
Julian Grove and Emily Hanink: Article selection and anaphora in the German relative clause
Henk Zeevat: Blocking Presupposition by Causal and Identity Inferences
Jacques Jayez and Robert Reinecke: Factives and Salience - An experimental Approach
Ashwini Deo, Sara Sanchez-Alonso and Maria Pinango: ser and estar as presuppositional variants: formal analysis and experimental evidence
Andrew Kehler and Jonathan Cohen: On the Presuppositional Behavior of Coherence-Driven Pragmatic Enrichments
David Yoshikazu Oshima: The meanings of perspectival verbs and their implications on the taxonomy of projective content/conventional implicature
Christopher Davis and Eric McCready: Expressives and Alternatives

12:30 - 2:00

Lunch (on your own)

2:00 - 3:20

Session 2

Kristen Syrett

Rebekah Baglini: The semantics of quotative ideophones [handout]
Robert Henderson: Pluractional Demonstrations [handout]

3:20 - 3:40

Coffee break

3:40 - 4:30

Poster session lightning talks (on display 4:30 - 5:30)

Tammi Stout

Luis Alonso-Ovalle: Are All Concessive Scalar Particles the Same? Probing into Spanish "Siquiera."
Takashi Morita: Scalar implicatures in non-monotonic environments
Peter Sutton and Hana Filip: Counting in Context [poster]
Sarah Zobel: Adjectival as-phrases as intensional secondary predicates
Sam Alxatib: Actuality Entailments, Negation, and Free Choice Inferences
Yael Sharvit and Jungmin Kang: Fragment Functional Answers
Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine and Hadas Kotek: Untangling Tanglewood using covert focus movement
Malte Willer and Chris Kennedy: Subjective Attitudes and Counterstance Contingency
Prerna Nadathur: Causal necessity and sufficiency in implicativity
Despina Oikonomou: Imperatives are existential modals; Deriving the must-reading as an Implicature

4:30 - 5:30

Poster session & refreshments

5:30 - 6:30

Manfred Krifka

Invited speaker, Sigrid Beck: Discourse related readings of scalar particles

7:30 - 10:30

Party at Scholz Garten

Saturday, May 14

Blanton (Edgar A. Smith building, 2nd floor)

8:30 - 9:00

Coffee and breakfast

9:00 - 10:40

Session 1

Ashwini Deo

Invited speaker, Kristen Syrett: Word by word: Experimental investigations in the acquisition of the lexicon
William Starr: Expressing Permission [slides]

10:40 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 11:50

Poster session lightning talks (on display 4:30 - 5:30)

David Beaver

Lucas Champollion, Ivano Ciardelli and Linmin Zhang: Breaking de Morgan's law in counterfactual antecedents [poster]
Jon Ander Mendia: Reasoning with Partial Orders
Ciyang Qing: Up to n: pragmatic inference about an optimal lower bound
Stavroula Alexandropoulou, Jakub Dotlačil and Rick Nouwen: At least ignorance inferences come at a processing cost: Support from eye movements
Elizabeth Coppock: Superlative modifiers as modified superlatives
Maayan Abenina-Adar and Nikos Angelopoulos: On root modality and thematic relations in Tagalog and English
Alexis Wellwood: States and events for S-level gradable adjectives
Robert Pasternak: A conservative theory of gradable modality
Suzi Lima: On object denoting nouns: defining atoms
Anja Goldschmidt and Joost Zwarts: Hitting the nail on the head: Force vectors in verb semantics

11:50 - 1:20

Lunch (on your own)

1:20 - 3:20

Session 2

Rick Nouwen

Aaron Steven White and Kyle Rawlins: A computational model of S-selection
Sunwoo Jeong and Christopher Potts: Intonational sentence-type conventions for perlocutionary effects: An experimental investigation [slides]
Timothy Leffel, Ming Xiang and Chris Kennedy: Imprecision is pragmatic: Evidence from referential processing

3:20 - 3:40

Coffee break

3:40 - 4:30

Poster session lightning talks (on display 4:30 - 5:30)

Stephen Wechsler

Julie Hunter and Nicholas Asher: Shapes of Conversation and At-Issue Content
Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal and Nora Boneh: Discourse update at the service of mirativity effects: the case of the Discursive Dative
Justin Bledin and Kyle Rawlins: Epistemic resistance moves
Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine: Focus association into copies and the scope of even
Masoud Jasbi: Three types of indefinites in Persian
Dylan Bumford: Decomposing definiteness
Agata Maria Renans: A cross-categorial definite determiner: evidence from Ga (Kwa)
Manfred Krifka and Fereshteh Modarresi: Number-Neutrality and Anaphoric Uptake of Pseudo-Incorporated Nominals in Persian (and Weak Definites in English) [handout]
Peter Hallman: "All" and "every" as quantity superlative
David Lahm: 'Different' as a Restriction on Skolem Functions

4:30 - 5:30

Poster session

5:30 - 6:00

Business meeting

Sunday, May 15

Blanton (Edgar A. Smith building, 2nd floor)

9:00 - 9:30

Coffee and breakfast

9:30 - 10:50

Session 1

John Beavers

Lucas Champollion: Homogeneity in donkey sentences [handout] [slides]
Itamar Francez: Summative existentials

10:50 - 11:10

Coffee break

11:10 - 12:30

Session 2

Annie Zaenen

Jeremy Kuhn: Dependent indefinites: the view from sign language [handout]
John Gluckman and Margit Bowler: Expletive agreement, evidentiality, and modality in Logooli [handout]

12:30 - 1:30

Lunch (provided)

1:30 - 3:10

Session 3

Hans Kamp

Anamaria Falaus and Andreea Nicolae: Fragment answers and double negation in strict negative concord languages [handout]
Invited speaker, Rick Nouwen: Expressive intensification: expressive intrusion?

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May 12-15, 2016

at the University of Texas at Austin

SALT 26

Semantics and Linguistic Theory

Thursday, May 12

Student Activity Center Ballroom, 2.410

Friday, May 13

Blanton (Edgar A. Smith building, 2nd floor)

Saturday, May 14

Blanton (Edgar A. Smith building, 2nd floor)

Sunday, May 15

Blanton (Edgar A. Smith building, 2nd floor)