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Friday, May 7th

9:00-9:15	Welcome and Opening Remarks	Jill Pipher (Vice President for Research, Brown University), and remarks from the Program Committee
Session 1 Chair: Elizabeth Allyn Smith
9:15-9:55	Modelling selectional super-flexibility	Kristina Liefke
10:00-10:40	Disjunctive discourse referents in French Sign Language	Jeremy Kuhn
10:40-11:00	Break
11:00-11:50	Lightning Talks
11:50-1:00	Poster Session 1
1:00-2:20	Lunch and Popup Mentoring
Session 2 Chair: Scott AnderBois
Invited Talk
2:20-3:20	Two Paths to Habituality: The Semantics of ‘Habitual Mode’ vs. ‘Imperfective Mode’ in Tlingit	Seth Cable
3:25-4:05	Modality in the nominal domain: The Chuj yalnhej + wh series	Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Justin Royer
4:05-4:25	Break
Session 3 Chair: Sophia Malamud
4:25-5:05	Granularity in the semantics of comparison	Helena Aparicio, Curtis Chen, Roger Levy and Elizabeth Coppock
5:10-5:50	English non-manner how-clauses as answers to deficient questions	Rebecca Jarvis

Saturday, May 8th

Session 4 Chair: Craige Roberts
Invited Talk
9:00-10:00	Dogwhistles: Persona and Ideology	Elin McCready (joint work with Robert Henderson)
10:05-10:45	A diachronic expanation for cross-linguistic variation in the use of inverse scope constructions	Omri Amiraz
10:45-11:05	Break
Session 5 Chair: E. Matthew Husband
11:05-11:45	Negative Free Choice	Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo, and Richard Breheny
11:50-12:30	Challenge problems for a theory of degree multiplication (with partial answer key)	Elizabeth Coppock
12:30-1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:20	Lightning Talks
2:20-3:30	Poster Session 2
3:30-3:45	Break
Session 6 Chair: Roman Feiman
3:45-4:25	The dual life of embedded CPs: Evidence from Russian čto-clauses	Tatiana Bondarenko
Invited Talk
4:30-5:30	Semantics, pragmatics, and noise in the acquisition of quantification	David Barner

Sunday, May 9th

Session 7 Chair: Ellie Pavlick
9:00-9:40	A post-suppositional account of associative plurals in Burmese	Keely New
9:45-10:25	Composing attitudes: Why knowing people is not believing them	Kajsa Djarv
10:25-10:40	Break
Session 8 Chair: Masako Fidler
10:40-11:20	Imprecision and speaker identity: How social meaning affects pragmatic reasoning (slides)	Andrea Beltrama and Florian Schwarz
11:25-12:05	Temporal homogeneity and exceptions to habituals	Omar Agha
12:05-1:05	Lunch
Session 9 Chair: Polly Jacobson
1:05-1:45	About what about: Topicality at the semantics-pragmatics Interface	Justin Bledin and Kyle Rawlins
Invited Talk
1:50-2:50	Temporal interpretation in the narrative mode	Roumyana Pancheva
3:00-4:00	SALT Business Meeting

Poster Session 1

Friday, May 7th
Lightning Talks: 11:00am-11:50am Eastern Time
Live Poster Sessions: 11:50am - 1:00pm Eastern Time

Scalar diversity and ignorance inferences: An experimental study on at least as a modifier of numerals vs adjectives		Stavroula Alexandropoulou
Prosody is adding what?		Maria Biezma, Bettina Braun and Angela James
Modifying result states in Turkish		Ömer Demirok and Furkan Dikmen
(Non-)factive islands from (non-)necessary triviality		Kajsa Djarv and Maribel Romero
Presuppositions in polar questions		Aurore Gonzalez
Intention reports and eventuality abstraction in a theory of mood choice		Thomas Grano
Plurals as scalar predicates: Evidence from contextual restrictions on cumulativity		Nina Haslinger
Bare singulars and pseudo-incorporation in Western Armenian		Alexandros Kalomoiros
Which singular wh-interrogatives admit plural answers in Brazilian Portuguese		Filipe Hisao Kobayashi and Vincent Rouillard
Distinguishing between alternatives		Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo and Richard Breheny
Reciprocity without reciprocal pronouns		Takanobu Nakamura
Modally conditioned mood-switch: the case of ADVISE Predicates in Greek		Despina Oikonomou
Toward a unified semantics for English "either"		William Thomas *
The dynamics of refusal: A revision to the QUD theory of discourse		Alex Warstadt
Which presuppositions are subject to contextual felicity constraints?		Ethan Wilcox, Roger Levy, and Kathryn Davidson

Poster Session 2

Saturday, May 8th
Lightning Talks: 1:30pm - 2:20pm Eastern Time
Live Poster Sessions: 2:20pm - 3:30pm Eastern Time

A compositional account of Japanese ka in Inquisitive semantics		Anna Alsop and Lucas Champollion
A restrictive account of the fourth reading		Ido Benbaji *
Zero, measurement, and nominal semantics in Cantonese		Hary Chow and Marcin Morzycki
Intervention effects directly follow from scope rigidity in Turkish		Ömer Demirok
Deriving polarity from granularity		Julie Goncharov and Lavi Wolf
Modal versus deictic evidentials in ʔayʔaǰuθəm		Marianne Huijsmans and Daniel K. E. Reisinger
Connoisseurial contradictions: expertise modulates faultless disagreement		Elsi Kaiser and Deniz Rudin
Intensional gaps: Relating doxasticity, bouleticity, veridicality, factivity, and neg-raising		Benjamin Kane, Will Gantt, and Aaron White
Might and might not: Children's comprehension of modal verbs		Brian Leahy
Anaphoric comparative compares focus alternatives		Ang Li
Two types of reference to wh-dependencies		Haoze Li
Q-particles in embedded declaratives, mood, and clausal complementation		Teruyuki Mizuno
Polarity sensitive weak necessity modals		Frank Staniszewski
On the apprehensive and frustrative uses of before and expletive negation		Chloé Tahar
Binding without variables: Solving the under-generation problem		Yimei Xiang

* Denotes an alternate talk