Terp semantics at Amsterdam

On quantifiers, modals, evidential grounding, habituality, questions, speech verbs, taste, agreement and homogeneity.

December 19-21, Amsterdam is full of both holiday spirit and Maryland semanticists, current and past, from our Meaning Meeters in Linguistics and Philosophy, with nine presentations at the Amsterdam Colloquium. The presenters are PhD students Jéssica Mendes and Jonathan Caleb Kendrick; PhD alums Tyler Knowlton (postdoc at Penn) and Yichi Raven Zhang (postdoc at Düsseldorf); recent Linguistics postdoc Daniel Goodhue (postdoc at ZAS Berlin); Philosophy faculty Paolo Santorio, Fabrizio Cariani and Eric Pacuit; and former Baggett Jad Wehbe (PhD student MIT). Jointly, the eight talks by Terps make up more than 20% of all the talks at the conference!

• The acquaintance inference as scalar exhaustification / Jonathan Kendrick
• Habituality via pragmatic strengthening: New evidence from subtractives [poster] / Jéssica Mendes
• New evidence for the unlearnability of non-conservative quantifiers / Tyler Knowlton, John Trueswell and Anna Papafragou
• Epistemic pseudo-agreement and hyper-domain semantics / Yichi Zhang and Eric Pacuit
• Bias in high negation questions as a quantity implicature in commitment space semantics / Daniel Goodhue
• Clausal embedding under to in Japanese as speech acts / Daniel Goodhue and Junko Shimoyama
• Revisiting presuppositional accounts of homogeneity / Jad Wehbe
• Ability modals as causal modals / Paolo Santorio
• Future-past asymmetries, evidential grounding, and projection / Fabrizio Cariani