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UConn at SALT

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UConn will be represented at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 36 at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 29-31 with these posters:

  • Fake Modality? by Stefan Kaufmann and Magdalena Kaufmann
  • Not all scalar implicatures are derived from utterable alternatives: evidence from child language acquisition by Paloma Jeretič, Itai Bassi, Aurore Gonzalez, Andreea Nicolae, Kazuko Yatsushiro (PhD 1999), and Uli Sauerland
  • Local licensing of O-/X-marking and presupposition satisfaction by Teruyuki Mizuno (PhD 2022)

UConn at CLS

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UConn was represented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (April 17-19, 2026) by:

  • Giulio Cifferi Muramatsu with a talk titled Testing the Source of Children’s Conjunctive Interpretation of Disjunction;
  • Zixi Liu with a talk titled Learning to Decode Speaker Uncertainty: Mandarin-Speaking Children’s Comprehension of Modal vs.
    Sentence-Final Particles    ;
  • Eli Herbst with a poster on A Discrete Analysis of Ordinals.

Tsinghua Workshop on Modality in Logic and Language

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The 5th Tsinghua  Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning on the topic of Modality in Logic and Language will be held on April 3-5. The workshop is co-organized by Ting Xu (PhD 2016, now Tsinghua University). UConn will be represented by:

  • Stefan Kaufmann with a tutorial on Probabilistic semantics for modality (and conditionals), as well as an invited talk titled Directions in Modality
  • Muyi Yang (PhD 2023, now Osaka University) with a talk on Additivity-driven Prioritizing Modality: A J/K Comparison
  • Yusuke Yagi (Phd 2025, now Waseda University) and Jiayi Zhou with a poster on Bridging Similarity and Modality

Welcome to Omar Agha

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We are pleased to announce that Omar Agha will be joining our department for the coming academic year. Omar is finishing up his dissertation in semantics at NYU with Lucas Champollion, having previously received a BA in linguistics and mathematics at the University of Chicago. He will teach courses in semantics/pragmatics and computational linguistics.

You can find more information about his research here.

Welcome Omar!