Magdalena Kaufmann was invited for a colloquium talk at the Semantics by South Workshop at UT Austin on Thursday 9/17. She presented joint work with Stefan Kaufmann, entitled “Exploring fake modality in conditional antecedents “.

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 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]

Magdalena Kaufmann and Stefan Kaufmann presented work on Varieties of Fakeness at the University of Potsdam, Germany, on July 3.