UConn at ESSLLI

UConn Linguistics was represented at the Student Session of the 37th European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) in Prague, Czech Republic, August 3-14, 2026, with two presentations:

  • Tense Morphemes as Scope-Takers: A Type-Theoretic Account by Kanta Tateno
  • Attitudes Are Optional: A Unified Relational Semantics for Attitude Verbs in Korean by Seungho Nam

The proceedings containing these papers were published in October.

UConn at NELS 57

UConn will represented at the 57th annual meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 57), hosted by the City University of New York Graduate Center Linguistics Program on October 16-18, with the following:

talk:

  • Scope rigidity as superiority: Zulu evidence by, talk by Vicki Carstens

posters:

  • Optionality in Serbo-Croatian ordinal-superlative constructions, poster by Eli Herbst
  • Object shift in nominalized structures: A new type of ECM, poster by Ryuta Ono
  • Let’s work and see if try is see: Varieties and (de)composition of try in Mandarin see-as-try constructions, poster by Qi Wu

UConn at Sinn und Bedeutung

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

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

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.