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Terps in SALT

May 15, 2025 Linguistics

A young woman, smiling after having defended her qualifying paper, flanked by her proud faculty committee members: two men standing on either side, and a man and a woman joining remotely on a large screen behind her.

Modals, conditionals, disjunctions, presuppositions and disagreements.

May 20, the 35th Semantics and Linguistic Theory conference is at Harvard, and features talks from present and past Terrapins in philosophy of language and semantics: Paolo Santorio, Yunhui Bai, Caleb Kendrick *24, and Raven Zhang *22 from Philosophy; Jéssica Mendes *24, Anouk Dieuleveut *21 and Jad Wehbe (Baggett Fellow '20) from Linguistics.

Talks

  • Jéssica Mendes / A new perspective on deontic shift
  • Jad Wehbe / Redundancy and presuppositional exhaustification

Posters

  • Isabelle Charnavel, Anouk Dieuleveut, Tom Meadows, David R. Müller and Dominique Sportiche / Who am I to (dis)agree? Interpretation sensitive agreement: Experimental evidence from French relatives
  • Caleb Kendrick and Yunhui Bai / Restriction in doubly-modalized disjunctions
  • Paolo Santorio / Don’t speak vacuously! Antecedent compatibility and trivalent conditionals
  • Yichi Raven Zhang / On speech act disjunction