A history of SALT

The first SALT was organized in 1991 at Cornell University by Gennaro Chierchia, Fred Landman, and Sally McConnell-Ginet. See the retrospective page from SALT30 for more information.


Previous SALTs

SALT Host and Dates Invited speakers
SALT1 Cornell: April 19-21, 1991
Program
Greg Carlson, Irene Heim, Robert May, and Barbara Partee
SALT2 OSU: May 1-3, 1992
Program
Jeroen Groenendijk, Laurence Horn, Angelika Kratzer, William Ladusaw, Anna Szabolcsi
SALT3 UC Irvine: March 5-7, 1993
Program
Hans Kamp, Mürvet Enç, James Higginbotham, Ed Keenan, Richard Larson
SALT4 Rochester: May 6-8, 1994
Program
Emmon Bach, Robin Cooper, David Dowty, Manfred Krifka, Sally McConnell-Ginet
SALT5 UT Austin: February 24-26, 1995
Program
Veneeta Dayal, Ray Jackendoff, Stanley Peters, Arnim von Stechow
SALT6 Rutgers: April 26-28, 1996
Program
Pauline Jacobson, Manfred Pinkal, Mats Rooth, Robert Stalnaker
SALT7 Stanford: March 21-23, 1997
Final call
Gennaro Chierchia, Chuck Fillmore, Irene Heim, Craige Roberts
SALT8 MIT: May 8-10, 1998
Conference announcement
Angelika Kratzer, Fred Landman, Richard Larson, Tanya Reinhart
SALT9 UCSC: February, 19-21 1999
Program
Beth Levin, Jerry Hobbs, Henriette de Swart, Terence Parsons
SALT10 Cornell: June 2-4, 2000
Final call
Irene Heim, James Higginbotham, Peter Lasersohn, Mats Rooth
SALT11 NYU: May 11-13, 2001
Program
Maria Bittner, Paul Dekker, Kit Fine, Tanya Reinhart, Barry Schein
SALT12 UCSD: March 8-10, 2002
Program
Robyn Carston, Donka Farkas, Jeff Pelletier, Roger Schwarzschild
SALT13 Washington: May 9-11, 2003
Website
Angelika Kratzer, Manfred Krifka, S.-Y. Kuroda, William Ladusaw
SALT14 Northwestern: May 14-16, 2004
Call
Barbara Abbott, Chris Barker, Kai von Fintel, Barbara Partee, Mark Steedman
SALT15 UCLA: March 25-27, 2005
Final Call
David Beaver, Yael Sharvit, Scott Soames, Anna Szabolcsi
SALT16 Tokyo: March 22-24, 2006
Program
Irene Heim, James Higginbotham, Angelika Kratzer, Toshiyuki Ogihara, Maribel Romero
SALT17 UConn: May 11-13, 2007
Call
Gennaro Chierchia, Veneeta Dayal, Danny Fox, Thomas Ede Zimmermann
SALT18 UMass Amherst: March 21-23, 2008
Conference announcement
Lyn Frazier, Lisa Matthewson ,Hotze Rullmann, Philippe Schlenker
SALT19 OSU: April 3-5, 2009
Conference announcement
Regine Eckardt, Delia Graff Fara, Laurence Horn, Chung-chieh Shan
SALT20 SFU/UBC: April 29-May 1, 2010
Website
Martina Faller, Anna Papafragou, Christopher Potts, Jason Stanley
SALT21 Rutgers: May 20-22, 2011
Website
Christopher Kennedy, Angelika Kratzer, Mandy Simons, Jesse Snedeker
SALT22 Chicago: May 18-20, 2012
Call
Jack Hoeksema, Louise McNally, Paul Portner, Anna Szabolcsi
SALT23 UCSC: May 3-5, 2013
Call
Maria Aloni, Cleo Condoravdi, Philippe Schlenker, Roger Schwarzschild
SALT24 NYU: May 30-June 1, 2014
Call
Emmanuel Chemla, Valentine Hacquard, Lauri Karttunen, Sarah Moss
SALT25 Stanford: May 15-17, 2015
Website
Adrian Brasoveanu, Daniel Büring, Ashwini Deo, Elsi Kaiser
SALT26 UT Austin: May 12-15, 2016
Website
Sigrid Beck, Rick Nouwen, Kristen Syrett, Edit Doron
SALT27 Maryland: May 12-14, 2017
Website
Pranav Anand, Chris Barker, Sarah Murray, Maribel Romero
SALT28 MIT: May 18-20, 2018
Website
Amy Rose Deal, Benjamin Spector
SALT29 UCLA: May 17–19, 2019
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Simon Charlow, Pauline Jacobson, Magdalena Kaufmann, Yoad Winter
SALT30 Cornell: April 23–26 August 17 – 20, 2020
Website
Veneeta Dayal, Dilip Ninan, Bernhard Schwarz, Judith Tonhauser
SALT31 Brown: May 7–9, 2021
Website
David Barner, Seth Cable, Elin McCready, Roumyana Pancheva
SALT32 COLMEX / UNAM: June 8-10, 2022
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Jess Harris, Carol Rose Little, Andrés Saab, Martina Wiltschko
SALT33 Yale: May 12-14, 2023
Website
Ivano Caponigro, Gennaro Chierchia, Carlotta Pavese, Ellie Pavlick, Heike Wiese
SALT34 Rochester: May 28-30, 2024
Website
Aaron Steven White, Scott Grimm