Harvard University
May 20 – 22, 2025

All talks and posters at SALT35 will take place in the Science Center at 1 Oxford Street, just outside Harvard Yard. The conference dinner on May 21st will be held at the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub right across the road from the Science Center.

ASL interpretation will be available for all presentations. For any questions related to ASL interpreting, please contact our ASL coordinator Stetson Stanger (stetsonstanger@fas.harvard.edu).

NB: This schedule is preliminary and subject to change.

Tuesday, May 20

8:00–8:45 Registration and breakfast
8:45–9:00 Welcome by tbd
Invited Talk // chair: tbd
9:00-10:00 tbd Florian Schwarz
Session 1 // chair: tbd
10:00-10:40 Nested ''which''-phrases and degenerate questions Danny Fox
Yasutada Sudo
10:40-11:00 Coffee Break
Session 2 // chair: tbd
11:00-11:40 Wondering hopefully and fearfully: How do desires and inquisitive attitudes interact? Ciyang Qing
Deniz Özyıldız
Maribel Romero
Wataru Uegaki
Lightning Talk Session // chair: tbd
11:40-12:20 Lightning Talk Session 1
12:20-13:20 Lunch (on your own)
Poster Session
13:20-14:50 Poster Session A
Session 3 // chair: tbd
14:50-15:30 Exh and only don't really compete -- they just answer different questions Adèle Hénot-Mortier
15:30-16:10 Constraining imprecision and implicature cancellation via structural alternatives Nina Haslinger
16:10-16:30 Coffee Break
Session 4 // chair: tbd
16:30-17:10 Cross-linguistic variation in the lexical semantics of conjunction Daniel Altshuler
Shen Aguinda
Guillaume Guitang
Nathaniel Scott
Scott AnderBois
Invited Talk // chair: tbd
17:10-18:10 tbd Ana Arregui

Wednesday, May 21

8:30-9:00 Breakfast
Invited Talk // chair: tbd
9:00-10:00 tbd Hazel Pearson
Session 5 // chair: tbd
10:00-10:40 Combinatorial restrictions on emotive nominals: CP and DP-complements Luke James Adamson
Kajsa Djärv
10:40-11:20 The presuppositions of ''forget'' Will Williams
11:20-11:40 Coffee Break
Session 6 // chair: tbd
11:40-12:20 Propositional anaphora and salience in the semantics of ''in which case'' Daniel Kang
Koda Li
Scott AnderBois
Lightning Talk Session // chair: tbd
12:20-13:00 Lightning Talk Session 2
13:00-14:00 Lunch (on your own and pop-up mentoring)
Poster Session
14:00-15:30 Poster Session B
Session 7 // chair: tbd
15:30-16:10 Definite but not specific: weak definites and clitic doubling Ekaterina Levina
16:10-16:50 On the plurality of epistemic indefinites Marco Degano
16:50-17:10 Coffee Break
Session 8 // chair: tbd
17:10-17:50 Outlook markers (as abstract discourse markers): An analysis of nanka in Japanese Yusuke Kubota
Misato Ido
17:50-18:30 Redundancy and presuppositional exhaustification Jad Wehbe
18:30-21:30 Conference Dinner

Thursday, May 22

8:30-9:00 Breakfast
Invited Talk // chair: tbd
9:00-10:00 tbd Clemens Mayr
Session 9 // chair: tbd
10:00-10:40 From NPs to predicates of individual concepts Filipe Hisao Kobayashi
10:40-11:20 Determiners as predicates Patrick Elliott
11:20-11:40 Coffee Break
Session 10 // chair: tbd
11:40-12:20 A new perspective on deictic shift Jéssica Mendes
12:20-13:00 Towards a Cognitively Plausible Quantitative Formalization of Counterfactual Interpretation Adrian Brasoveanu
13:00-13:40 Staged updates Simon Charlow
tbd Business meeting on Zoom