Talks

UConn at Sinn und Bedeutung

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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.

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 the following:

  • 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 [Talk]
  • Fake Modality? by Stefan Kaufmann and Magdalena Kaufmann [Poster]
  • Local licensing of O-/X-marking and presupposition satisfaction by Teruyuki Mizuno (PhD 2022) [Poster]

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

UConn Linguistics at GLOW in Asia

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The 2nd Workshop for Young Scholars edition of GLOW in Asia took place in Nagoya, Japan on March 13-15th, hosted by the Center for Linguistics at Nanzan University. UConn linguistics was represented at the conference with an invited talk by:

  • Daiko Takahashi (PhD 1994, now at Tohoku University). Sluicing in Disguise

 

… a main session talk by:

  • Qiushi Chen. Accidental gaps and agreement in Hokkaido Ainu

 

… and posters by:

  • Ryuta Ono. Wh-scope marking via prosody and partial wh-movement in Japanese
  • Hiroaki Saito (PhD 2023, now at Mie University). Attitude shift and the left periphery in Japanese

 

UConn Linguists at the LSA Annual Meeting

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The 2026 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America took place January 8-11 in New Orleans. UConn linguistics was well represented at the conference with talks by:

  • Qiushi Chen. On fission and the cycle: Lessons from Japhug agreement
  • Helen Koulidobrova (PhD 2012, now at Central Connecticut University), Julio v. Aguirre, Jorge Banet, Fernanda v. Bossano. Steps in Collaborative Documentation of Ecuadorian Sign Language (LSEC)
  • Yixuan “Pepper” Yan. Presupposition of alternative questions: The view from child Mandarin
  • Emily Jo Noschese and Diane Lillo-Martin. Noun Phrases with Multiple Adjectives in American Sign Language
  • Seungho Nam, Seo-young Lee and Se Yeon Park. QUD sensitivity as a parameter of presupposition triggers: Evidence from Korean
  • Bonnie Barrett, Linghui “Eva” Gan, Deborah Chen Pichler (PhD 2001, now at Gallaudet University) and Diane Lillo-Martin. L2 Grammatical Development of ASL by Hearing Parents of Deaf Children
  • Margaret Chui Yi Lee. Do children exhibit consistent patterns across different uses of definites? A case study of Hong Kong Cantonese-speaking children

… a poster presentations by:

  • Troy Messick (PhD 2017, now at Rutgers University). Pronoun and Anaphor (non)complementarity in PPs: A view from coordinated reciprocals
  • Troy Messick and Merlin Balkhash. Indexical and agreement shifting in Kazakh
  • Jeremy Johns and Helen Koulidobrova. Where Indigenous language revitalization and dominant L2 instruction meet: converging on the Indigenous pedagogy

In addition, Qiushi Chen was a recipient of the Centennial Student Scholarship Award. Congratulations!

30 years of the Minimalist Program (online event)

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An online event celebrating 30 Years of the Minimalist Program organized by the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (IEL Unicamp) took place on November 19th. Four key figures in minimalist syntax gave presentations at the event, including Norbert Hornstein, and three UConn linguists:

  • Juan Uriagereka (PhD 1988, now at UMD). Brief chronicle of a depth foretold
  • Željko Bošković. Thirty years of the Minimalist Program: Then, during, and especially now
  • Jairo Nunes (Adjunct Professor of Linguistics). Phase defectivity and the grammar of Brazilian Portuguese

A recording of the event can be found here.

UConn Linguistics at ICFL

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The 11th International Conference on Formal  (ICFL) was held at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (Baiyushan campus) on November 7-9, 2025. UConn linguistics was represented at the conference with a keynote talk by:

  • Željko Bošković. Licensing under sisterhood

… and talks by:

  • Ting Xu (PhD 2016, now at Tsinghua University), Li-Chen Zhuang, Mingming Liu and Stella Christie. On the felicity conditions of dou: An experimental study
  • Zheng Shen (PhD 2018, now at National University of Singapore) & Beth Chan. Cross-linguistic variation of D-linking amelioration effects.
  • Kangzheng Gao (PhD 2024, now at Suzhou City University). Modeling Syntactic Parameter Setting: A Constraint-based Approach