11th MACSIM at Hopkins

October 05, 2025 Linguistics

Four men standing in front of a large TV screen, smiling in a ceremonial pose, with a woman's head on the screen behind them, smiling together with them.

Terrapins on meaning in B'More.

Saturday October 11, the 11th MACSIM is up at Johns Hopkins University, and UMD is fielding five presentations: a talk by Fedya, and posters from Katherine, Mal, Matthew and Will.

Fëdor Golosov / A dynamic account of bare singulars in languages without articles
Katherine Howitt / Examining 4 year old's knowledge of the strong crossover constraint
Mal Shah / Future-Epistemic ambiguities as event-relativity
Matthew Shi / Restricting ignorance
Will Zumchak / Equivalency oddness without blind exhaustification

MACSIM, the Mid-Atlantic Colloquium for Studies in Meaning, is a regional workshop on issues related to meaning in natural language. Students from NYU, CUNY, Rutgers, Penn, Delaware, Johns Hopkins, Maryland, Georgetown present their work and faculty participate in audience discussion. There is also one invited talk by a faculty member, who this year is Paloma Jeretič from UPenn.