Main Event Schedule
09:30-10:00 Registration/Check-in; Coffee & Snacks
10:00-10:45 Invited Faculty Talk – Kristen Syrett (Rutgers): Experimental Evidence for Gradability, Context Sensitivity, and Essentialism in the Representation of Objects and Nouns
10:45-11:15 Alexandros Kalomoiros (Penn): Presupposition and its (A-)symmetries
11:15-11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30-12:00 André Eliatamby (CUNY): Children’s Interpretation of “Some” in Small and Large Contexts
12:00-12:30 Ioana Grosu (NYU): Facts and laws in children’s counterfactual possibilities
12:30-01:30 LUNCH (provided in Linguistics Department)
01:30-02:15 Poster Session 1
02:15-02:45 Chaoyi Chen (Rutgers): Mandarin concessive scalar particle hai: Verum focus and Maximize Presupposition!
02:45-03:15 Natalia Talmina (Hopkins): Pragmatics of English spatial prepositions
03:15-03:30 COFFEE BREAK
03:30-04:15 Poster Session 2
04:15-04:45 Jéssica Mendes (Maryland): The Future Subjunctive in Portuguese
04:45-05:15 Xiang Li (Georgetown): Overt Deixis and Null Anaphor in Uyghur Attitude Reports
05:30-05:45 Business Meeting (Ling Department Library)
06:15-???? DINNER/PARTY (Food provided, BYOB*) – Details to be provided at event on site; location close to 49th & Baltimore Ave in West Philadelphia
[*Bring your own beverage - details & suggestions on logistics page]
Poster Session 1 (1:30-2:15)
| Brittlea Jernigan-Hardrick | U of Delaware | A formal analysis of the quasimodal ‘finna’ in African American English |
| Gérard Avelino | Rutgers | Modal event relativity extended: Evidence from Tagalog particle sana |
| Indira Das | Rutgers | Bare noun definites and their non-number neutrality in Odia |
| Jane Li | Johns Hopkins | Tagalog Inclusory Constructions |
| Karl Mulligan | Johns Hopkins | Crowdsourcing QUD annotations |
| Keita Ishii | U of Delaware | Mismatch in Speaker/Addressee embedding and UH embedding in Japanese |
| Mingyeong Choi | Georgetown | “Sentence-final -ki in Korean: Directive meaning based on salient goals and ideals” |
| Zhuosi Luo | Georgetown | CAUSE(e1, e2) is not sophisticated enough: lessons from Teochew |
| Zhuoye Zhao | NYU | Mandarin le as an existential past-tense morpheme |
| Ziling Zhu | Rutgers | *Be surprised whether: Question-to-Cleft reduction |
Poster Session 2 (3:30-4:15)
| Alaa Sharif | CUNY | Non-Split vs. Split semantics of exceptives in Palestinian Arabic |
| Fedor (Fedya) Golosov | U of Maryland | Semantics of the dual number in Kazym Khanty: a not-at-issue analysis |
| Jingyi Chen | U of Maryland | Anankastic Conditionals are Modal Subordination |
| Jonathan Caleb Kendrick | U of Maryland | Free Choice Items in Imperatives |
| June Choe | Penn | Discourse effects on the acquisition of subordinate nouns |
| Malhaar Paritosh Shah | U of Maryland | Against Quantificational Event Semantics |
| Nhu-Anh (Anne) Hoang Nguyen | CUNY | The (cho) đến ‘until’ puzzle in Vietnamese |
| Ugurcan Vurgun | Penn | Aspectual framing of events shifts online event apprehension |
| Victor Gomes | Penn | How to think negative thoughts (to learn negators with) |
| Yiran Chen | Penn | The Goal Bias Emerges Early in Motion Event Inspection and Speech Planning: Evidence from Eye-Movements |
| Zhilang Liu | CUNY | The Syntactic status of gradable you+NP constructions in Mandarin |