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 by Jeff Runner
Talk Session 1 // chair: Mary Moroney
9:00-9:40 Double counting: The semantics of numerals and number in Estonian [slides] Tom Roberts
9:40-10:20 Accounting for counting (crosslinguistically) [slides] Ushasi Banerjee
10:20-11:00 Tiered honorification in Eastern Indo-Aryan: [HON]-less, and also presuppositionless [slides] Ruoan Wang
11:00-11:20 Coffee Break
SALTED Workshop // chair: Mary Moroney
11:20-12:50 Spotlighting sign languages in semantics
12:50-14:20 Lunch (not provided)
Invited Talk // chair: Scott Grimm
14:20-15:20 Characterizing illocutionary content [slides] Jessica Rett
15:20-15:40 Coffee Break
Talk Session 2 // chair: Maribel Romero
15:40-16:20 A note on any and simplification [slides] Vincent Rouillard
16:20-17:00 Only only only: A distributed meaning approach to exclusive doubling [slides] Ka-Fai Yip
17:00-17:40 Evidence for projection of cleft exhaustivity [slides] Omri Amiraz
18:30–21:00 Happy Hour at Three Heads Brewing (map)

Wednesday, May 29

7:00–8:00 Run starting from University of Rochester Interfaith Chapel (map)
Talk Session 3 // chair: Clemens Mayr
9:00-9:40 Mood across constructions: A unified approach [handout] Maribel Romero
9:40-10:20 Coarse modality with Italian magari Enrico Flor
10:20-11:00 Optional Past Tenses in Kanien'kéha [slides] Terrance Gatchalian
11:00-11:20 Coffee Break
Lightning Talk Session // chair: Julian Grove
11:20-12:00 Lightning Talk Session A
12:00-12:20 Coffee Break
Lightning Talk Session // chair: Julian Grove
12:20-13:00 Lightning Talk Session B
13:00-14:30 Lunch (not provided)
Invited Talk // chair: Julian Grove
14:30-15:30 Asking questions [slides] Kyle Rawlins
15:30-15:50 Coffee Break
Talk Session 4 // chair: Manfred Krifka
15:50-16:30 Javanese veridicality mismatches: Q-to-P reduction amid uniformity [slides] Tatiana Bondarenko
16:30-17:10 Question embedding without wh-interrogatives: A unified account [slides] Jeanne Lecavelier
Malte Zimmermann
17:10-17:50 Pathological questions, focus, and unacceptable ellipsis [slides] Itai Bassi
Poster Session
18:00-19:30 Poster Session and Reception

Thursday, May 30

Talk Session 5 // chair: Tom Roberts
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 [slides] Manfred Krifka
Fereshteh Modarresi
10:20-10:40 Coffee Break
Invited Talk // chair: Aaron Steven White
10:40-11:40 The morphosemantics of incremental plurality [handout] Robert Henderson
11:40-12:00 Coffee Break
Talk Session 6 // chair: Malte Zimmermann
12:00-12:40 Non-de dicto construals as a uniform phenomenon [slides] Clemens Mayr
Viola Schmitt
12:40-13:20 Morphology and scale structure: On -ish in Finnish Elsi Kaiser