XPrag.de at SALT 25 at Stanford University, May 15-17, 2015

Several XPrag.de members will present at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 25) to be held at Stanford University, May 15-17, 2015.

Talks by XPag.de members on Saturday, May 16th:

“On the acquisition of simple and complex disjunctions in French and Japanese” (abstract)
Lyn Tieu (ENS), Kazuko Yatsushiro (XPrag.de associate ZAS Berlin), Alexandre Cremers (ENS), Jacopo Romoli (Ulster), Uli Sauerland (project SSI) and Emmanuel Chemla (ENS)

“Semantic values as latent pragmatic parameters: surprising few and many” (abstract)
Michael Franke and Anthea Schoeller (both project ProComPrag)

“Presuppositions in the scope of quantifying expressions: Eye tracking data” (abstract)
Sonja Tiemann (project ObTrEx)

Posters presented by XPrag.de members on Saturday, May 16th:

“The grammar of relative measurement”(abstract)
Dorothy Ahn (Harvard) and Uli Sauerland (project SSI)

“Contradicting (not-)at-issueness in exclusives and clefts: an empirical study” (abstract)
Joseph Deveaugh-Geiss, Anna Boell, Malte Zimmermann and Edgar Onea Gáspár (all project ExCl)

“Bias in commitment space semantics: declarative questions, negated questions, and question tags” (abstract)
Manfred Krifka (project YesNo)

“Surprise-predicates, strong exhaustivity and whether-questions” (abstract)
Maribel Romero (project BiasQ)

“Counterfactual donkeys: A strict conditional analysis” (abstract)
Andreas Walker (Konstanz) and Maribel Romero (project BiasQ)