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: Kathryn Davidson
9:00-10:00 Fun filtering facts, if not presupposition projection 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
  Predicting the Scope of Focus Particles in Polar Questions Takanobu Nakamura
Kenta Mizutani
  Incremental interpretation of discourse coherence: Evidence from reading times John Duff
Kelsey Sasaki
Daniel Altshuler
  The Japanese scalar particle hitotsu ‘even’: Variations of EVEN items Osamu Sawada
  Rethinking embeddability and context sensitivity in Honorification: Evidence from Korean si Ariela Ye
Dorothy Ahn
  A unified semantics for two temporal paradoxes Noga Syon
  Agree to disagree: additive particles in responses Maria Esipova
  Semantic micro-variation in distributive marking in Highland Mayan Sign Language Sybil Vachaudez
Samantha Prins
Juan Sian Ajsivinac
Carlo Geraci
Robert Henderson
Jeremy Kuhn
  Understanding the je ne sais quoi of mock language María Biezma
  New evidence for a Bayesian approach to gradable adjectives Benjamin Spector
Émile Enguehard
Carlotta Marianna Cascino
  The parts of ‘only’ Keny Chatain
Dean McHugh
  On the universal construal of Mandarin any I-TA Chris Hsieh
Wei-wen Roger Liao
  Which alternatives matter? The role of QUD and speaker knowledge in conditionals Ebru Evcen
Alan Bale
David Barner
  The semantic composition of event counting expressions within nominals in Mandarin Chinese Zhendong Liu
  Free Choice in (non-)monotonic contexts Paul Marty
Patrick Elliott
Guillermo Del Pinal
Jacopo Romoli
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: Tatiana Bondarenko
17:10-18:10 Revisiting at least and at most Ana Arregui

Wednesday, May 21

8:30-9:00 Breakfast
Invited Talk // chair: Gennaro Chierchia
9:00-10:00 Partial control and the logic of plural de se 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
  Degree of monotonicity is correlated with ease of learning for quantifiers Christopher Haberland
  On the derivation of polarity sensitivity in the domain of degree modifiers Andreea Nicolae
Stephanie Solt
  Neg-raising, accessibility and propositional anaphora Jon Gajewski
  On speech act disjunction Yichi Raven Zhang
  Bare singular and plural kinds Agata Renans
Akua Asantewaa Campbell
Sampson Korsah
  Degreeless intensification and scale structure: Evidence from Bardi Lydia Newkirk
Claire Bowern
Tomás Fuchs-Lynch
  Who am I to (dis)agree? Interpretation sensitive agreement: Experimental evidence from French relatives Isabelle Charnavel
Anouk Dieuleveut
Tom Meadows
David R. Müller
Dominique Sportiche
  On aspectual coercion in "before"-clauses: Evidence from processing Johanna Alstott
  Restriction in Doubly Modal Disjunctions Jonathan Caleb Kendrick
Yunhui Bai
  First-person metalinguistic disagreements update the standard of precision, both up and down Yifan Wu
Helena Aparicio
  The resolution of silence: Towards an attention-coherence approach to Mandarin null pronoun resolution Chenxi Xia
  Reanalyzing frustration: event maximality and non-inertia in two O'dam frustratives Prerna Nadathur
Michael Everdell
  Don’t speak vacuously! Antecedent compatibility and trivalent conditionals Paolo Santorio
  Probabilistic non-maximality Diego Feinmann
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: Gennaro Chierchia
9:00-10:00 On the scope of indefinites and imprecision 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