UConn Linguistics will be represented at Sinn und Bedeutung 31, held at Nantes Université, France, September 1-4, by the following.

Talks:

• Q. Wu – Let’s work and see if try is see: Varieties and composition of try in Mandarin see-as-try constructions.
• Y. Yagi (PhD 2025) – Selective quantification of dynamic alternatives.
• J. Gajewski & M. Kaufmann – Lying when licensing NPIs.

Posters:

• L. Tieu (PhD 2013), N. Liu, S. Zheng & S. Walter –  Investigating depictive and symbolic uses of emoji through contrastive inferences.

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