University of Rochester
May 28 – 30, 2024

All talks and posters at SALT34 will take place on the University of Rochester’s River Campus.

Talk sessions and on-site registration will take place on the first floor of Wegmans Hall (Room 1400; map), and coffee breaks will take place on the first floor of Goergen Hall (Munnerlyn Atrium; map). On Wednesday evening (May 29), there will be a reception concurrent with the poster session, both in Rettner Hall (Rettner Atrium; map).

NB: This schedule is preliminary and subject to change.

Tuesday, May 28

8:00–8:45 Registration
8:45–9:00 Welcome
Talk Session 1
9:00-9:40 Double counting: The semantics of numerals and number in Estonian Tom Roberts
9:40-10:20 Accounting for counting (crosslinguistically) Ushasi Banerjee
10:20-11:00 Tiered honorification in Eastern Indo-Aryan: [HON]-less, and also presuppositionless Ruoan Wang
11:00-11:20 Coffee Break
SALTED Workshop
11:20-12:50 Spotlighting sign languages in semantics
12:50-14:20 Lunch
Invited Talk
14:20-15:20 Characterizing illocutionary content Jessica Rett
15:20-15:40 Coffee Break
Talk Session 2
15:40-16:20 A note on any and simplification Vincent Rouillard
16:20-17:00 Only only only: A distributed meaning approach to exclusive doubling Ka-Fai Yip
17:00-17:40 Evidence for projection of cleft exhaustivity Omri Amiraz
18:00–20:00 Happy Hour at Swan Dive (map) and The Daily Refresher (map)

Wednesday, May 29

7:00–8:00 Run starting from University of Rochester Interfaith Chapel (map)
Talk Session 3
9:00-9:40 Mood across constructions: A unified approach Maribel Romero
9:40-10:20 Coarse modality with Italian magari Enrico Flor
10:20-11:00 Optional Past Tenses in Kanien'kéha Terrance Gatchalian
11:00-11:20 Coffee Break
Lightning Talk Session
11:20-12:00 Lightning Talk Session A
12:00-12:20 Coffee Break
Lightning Talk Session
12:20-13:00 Lightning Talk Session B
13:00-14:30 Lunch
Invited Talk
14:30-15:30 Asking questions Kyle Rawlins
15:30-15:50 Coffee Break
Talk Session 4
15:50-16:30 Question embedding without wh-interrogatives: A unified account Jeanne Lecavelier
Malte Zimmermann
16:30-17:10 Pathological questions, focus, and unacceptable ellipsis Itai Bassi
17:10-17:50 Javanese veridicality mismatches: Q-to-P reduction amid uniformity Tatiana Bondarenko
Poster Session
18:00-19:30 Poster Session and Reception

Thursday, May 30

Talk Session 5
9:00-9:40 More experimental evidence on the triggering problem for presuppositions Nadine Bade
9:40-10:20 Number agreement of coordinated subjects: Competing syntactic and semantic rules Manfred Krifka
Fereshteh Modarresi
10:20-10:40 Coffee Break
Invited Talk
10:40-11:40 The morphosemantics of incremental plurality Robert Henderson
11:40-12:00 Coffee Break
Talk Session 6
12:00-12:40 Non-de dicto construals as a uniform phenomenon Clemens Mayr
Viola Schmitt
12:40-13:20 Morphology and scale structure: On -ish in Finnish Elsi Kaiser