Sinn und Bedeutung 30 will take place at Goethe University Frankfurt, September 23-27, 2024. UConn linguistics will be well represented at the conference, with an invited talk by:

• Magdalena Kaufmann. Perspectives on possibility modals

… and talks by:

• Yuta Tatsumi (PhD 2021, now at Meikai University). Temporal connectives and measure phrases in Japanese
• Mingjiang Chen. A Causal Model Approach to the Agent Control Hypothesis
• Yixuan Yan and Yitong Luo. Declarative but not inquisitive disjunctors derive conjunctive inference in child language: What to flatten?
• Adina Camelia Bleotu, Lyn Tieu (PhD 2013, now at University of Toronto), Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, and Andreea Nicolae.Comparing disjunction across polarities: The source of strong interpretations of negative disjunctive sentences in child language is scope, not strengthening
• Yusuke Yagi (PhD 2025, now at Waseda University) and Ka-Fai Yip. Asymmetric reconstruction for binding but not for scope

… and poster presentations by:

• Jon Gajewski. A source-based ambiguity in the semantics of believe
• Xuetong Yuan (PhD 2024, now at University of Chicago). Conditionality without if: conditional marking strategies in Mandarin

The 17th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference (GALA 17), was held September 11-13 in Tours, France, at the City of Creation and Innovation (MAME). UConn linguistics was well represented at the conference with talks by:

• Elaine Grolla (PhD 2005, now at University of Sao Paolo), Kazuko Yatsushiro (PhD 1999, now at ZAS Berlin), Andreea Nicolae, Artemis Alexiadou, and Uli Sauerland. Resumption in matrix wh-questions
• Yixuan Yan and Yitong Luo. Mandarin children interpret declarative but not interrogative disjunction as conjunction
• André Eliatamby and Lyn Tieu (PhD 2013, now at University of Toronto). Investigating the interaction of definiteness and ad hoc implicatures in child language
• William Snyder, Sahil Luthra, Nabin Koirala and Roeland Hancock. Passives, Raising, and the Experiencer Externalization Hypothesis
• Chie Nakamura, Suzanne Flynn, Yoichi Miyamoto (PhD 1994, now at Osaka University), and Noriaki Yusa. Filler-gap Resolution in Cross-linguistic Wh-questions: L2 English and Lti Japanese

… and posters by:

• Giulio Ciferri Muramatsu. A Picture Selection Task for the Acquisition of Japanese Disjunction
• Cory Bill, Imke Driemel, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Napoleon Katsos and Uli Sauerland. A cross-linguistic investigation of children’s negative indefinite production
• Pravaal Yadav. Do children use the same grammar for comprehension and production? A study of long-distance questions in child-Hindi

 

Stefan Kaufmann presented his work on “Import/Export and other conditional invalidities” at this year’s Philosophy of Language and Linguistics workshop at the Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 8-12.

Diane Lillo-Martin and Shuyan Wang will present a poster, titled “Children’s online processing of scalar implicatures”, at the 2025 edition of the conference on Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL 2025), hosted by the University of Zurich, September 1st-2nd 2015.

The 32nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, organized by Cornell University, took place on June 13-15, 2025. UConn was represented at the conference with talks by:

• Qiushi Chen. On the dual status of -e- in Old Japanese verbal morphology
• Xuetong Yuan (PhD 2024, now at University of Chicago). Evaluativity and practicality in conditionals: the case of tewa

Adrian Stegovec gave an invited talk, titled On the correlation between pronoun type and person restrictions at the Bielefeld-Leiden Comparative Syntax Conference 2025 (BieLeiCos) which took place on May 22nd-23rd at Bielefeld University, Germany.

The 61st annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS) took place at the University of Chicago on May 9-11, and UConn linguistics was represented at the conference with talks by:

… and poster presentations by:

• Stefan Kaufmann and Magdalena Kaufmann. Lifetime effects in X-marked conditionals
• Lydia Paleologou. Quantificational matching in indefinite argument drop.

The 42nd meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 43), hosted by the University of Washington, Seattle, took place on April 25-27, 2025. UConn was represented at the conference with a talk by:

• Linghui Eva Gan. Correlation between focus and the clause-final position in Hong Kong Sign Language

… and posters by:

• Yoshiki Fujiwara (PhD 2022, now at Yamaguchi University). Can Adjuncts Be Elided? A Bimodal Approach to Adjunct-Inclusive Interpretation
• Si Kai Lee (PhD 2023, now at University of Chicago). Indeterminate determiners: a case study of Singlish prenominal relative clauses 

 

Pictured: The UConn linguistics contingent at WCCFL (Yoshiki, Si Kai, and Eva).