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SALT XV

Held at UCLA March 25-27, 2005

Edited by Effi Georgala and Jonathan Howell
326 pages

Contents

1. Alan Bale: Quantifiers, Again and the Complexity of Verb Phrases
2. David Beaver, Itamar Francez and Dmitry Levinson: Bad Subject: (Non-)canonicality and NP Distribution in Existentials
3. Claire Beyssade and Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin: A Syntax-based Analysis of Predication
4. Rajesh Bhatt and Yael Sharvit: A Note on Intensional Superlatives
5. Jean Mark Gawron: Generalized Paths
6. Valentine Hacquard: Aspects of Too and Enough Constructions
7. Andrew Kehler: Coherence-Driven Constraints on the Placement of Accent
8. Marcin Morzycki: Size Adjectives and Adnominal Degree Modification
9. Jon Nissenbaum: Kissing Pedro Martinez: (Existential) Anankastic Conditionals and Rationale Clauses
10. Josep Quer: Context Shift and Indexical Variables in Sign Language
11. Benjamin Russell: Functional Parasitic Gaps
12. Bernhard Schwarz: Modal Superlatives
13. Mandy Simons: Semantics and Pragmatics in the Interpretation of or
14. Shoichi Takahashi and Danny Fox: MaxElide and the Re-binding Problem
15. Gina Taranto: How Discourse Adjectives Synchronize the Speaker and the Hearer's Beliefs (It is clear that Briscoe is a Detective)
16. Carla Umbach: Why Do Modified Numerals Resist a Referential Interpretation?
17. Michael Wagner: NPI-Licensing and Focus Movement
18. Tom Werner: You Do What You Gotta Do, Or Why must Implies will
19. Igor Yanovich: Choice-functional Series of Indefinite Pronouns and Hamblin Semantics

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SALT XIV

Held at Northwestern University May 14-16, 2004

Edited by Robert B. Young
322 pages

Contents

1. Barbara Abbott: Some Remarks on Indicative Conditionals
2. Pranav Anand and Andrew Nevins: Shifty Operators in Changing Contexts
3. Ivano Caponigro: The Semantic Contribution of Wh-words and Type Shifts: Evidence from Free Relatives Crosslinguistically
4. Tim Fernando: Inertia in Temporal Modification
5. Marcelo Ferreira: Imperfectives and Plurality
6. Hana Filip: The Telicity Parameter Revisited
7. Anastasia Giannakidou: Domain Restriction and the Arguments of Quantificational Determiners
8. Michela Ippolito: An Analysis of Still
9. Pauline Jacobson: Kennedy's Puzzle: What I'm Named or Who I Am?
10. Eric McCready: Two Japanese Adverbials and Expressive Content
11. Kimiko Nakanishi: On Comparative Quantification in the Verbal Domain
12. Rani Nelken and Chung-chieh Shan: A Logic of Interrogation Should Be Internalized in a Modal Logic for Knowledge
13. Barbara H. Partee and Vladimir Borschev: The Semantics of Russian Genitive of Negation: The Nature and Role of Perspectival Structure
14. Paul Portner: The Semantics of Imperatives within a Theory of Clause Types
15. Christopher Potts and Shigeto Kawahara: Japanese Honorifics as Emotive Definite Descriptions
16. Maribel Romero: Tense and Intensionality in Specificational Copular Sentences
17. Chung-chieh Shan: Binding Alongside Hamblin Alternatives Calls for Variable-free Semantics
18. Yael Sharvit: Free Indirect Discourse and 'De Re' Prounouns

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SALT XIII

Held at the University of Washington May 9-11, 2003

Edited by Robert B. Young and Yuping Zhou
327 pages

Contents

1. Klaus Abels: Who Gives a Damn about Minimizers in Questions?
2. Nicholas Asher and Linton Wang: Ambiguity and Anaphora with Plurals in Discourse
3. David Beaver and Cleo Condoravdi: A Uniform Analysis of Before and After
4. Richard Breheny: A Lexical Account of Implicit (Bound) Contectual Dependence
5. Edit Doron: Bare Singular Reference to Kinds
6. Jean Mark Gawron and Andrew Kehler: Respective Answers to Coordinated Questions
7. Daniel Hardt: Sloppy Identity, Binding and Centering
8. Michaela Ippolito: Quantification over Times in Subjunctive Conditionals
9. Graham Katz: A Modal Account of the English Present Perfect Puzzle
10. Ji-yung Kim: "Intermediate Scope" in (Mandarin) Chinese
11. Manfred Krifka: Bare NPs: Kind-referring, Indefinites, Both, or Neither?
12. S.-Y. Kuroda: Milsark's Generalization and Categorical Judgments
13. Dmitry Levinson: Probabilistic Model-theoretic Semantics for Want
14. Luisa Martí: Contextual Variables as Pronouns
15. Uli Sauerland: A New Semantics for Number
16. Penka Stateva: Superlative More
17. Robert van Rooy and Marie Safárová: On Polar Questions
18. Andrea Wilhelm: Quasi-Telic Perfective Aspect in Dëne Suliné (Chipewyan)

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SALT XII

Held at UCSD and San Diego State University March 8-10, 2002

Edited by Brendan Jackson
358 pages

Contents

1. Dorit Abusch: Lexical Alternatives as a Source of Pragmatic Presupposition
2. Maria Aloni and Robert van Rooy: The Dynamics of Questions and Answers
3. David I. Beaver and Brady Z. Clark: Monotonicity and Focus Sensitivity
4. Donka F. Farkas: Varieties of Indefinites
5. Anastasia Giannakidou: UNTIL, Aspect, and Negation: A Novel Argument for two Untils
6. Yael Greenberg: Two Types of Quantificational Modalized Genericity, and the Interpretation of Bare Plural and Indefinite Singular NPs
7. Christine Gunlogson: Declarative Questions
8. Pauline Jacobson: Direct Compositionality and Variable-Free Semantics: The Case of Binding into Heads
9. Jacques Jayez and Lucia M. Tovena: Determiners and (Un)certainity
10. Marcin Morzycki: Wholes and Their Covers
11. Maribel Romero and Chung-hye Han: Verum Focus in Negative Yes/No Questions and Ladd's p/-p Ambiguity
12. Roger Swarzschild: The Grammar of Measurement
13. Chung-chieh Shan: A Continuation Semantics of Interrogatives That Accounts for Baker's Ambiguity
14. Yael Sharvit: Embedded Quantifiers in Which- and Whether- Questions
15. Judith Tonhauser: A Dynamic Semantic Account of the Temporal Interpretation of Noun Phrases
16. Yoad Winter: Functional Readings and Wide-Scope Indefinites
17. Malte Zimmerman: A Compositional Analysis of Anti-Quantifiers as Quantifiers
18. Zsófia Zvolensky: Is a Possible-Worlds Semantics of Modality Possible? A Problem for Kratzer's Semantics

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SALT XI

Held at New York University May 11-13, 2001

Edited by Rachel Hastings, Brendan Jackson, and Zsofia Zvolenszky
465 pages

Contents

1. Ana Arregui and Lisa Matthewson: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective on the Expression of Manner
2. Chris Barker: Introducing Continuations
3. Maria Bittner: Topical Referents for Individuals and Possibilities
4. Daniel Buring: A Situation Semantics for Binding out of DP
5. Alastair Butler: Degree Relatives are Ordinary Relatives
6. Bridget Copley: Be Going to as a Case of High Aspect
7. Paul Dekker: On If and Only
8. Alexis Dimitriadis: Function Domains in Variable-Free Semantics
9. Paul Elborne: When is Situation Semantics Allowed?
10. Tim Fernando: Conservative Generalized Quantifiers and Presupposition
11. Hana Filip: The Semantics of Case in Russian Secondary Predication
12. Alessandra Giorgi and Fabio Pianesi: Tense, Attitudes, and Subjects
13. Andrea Gualmini, Stephen Crain, Luisa Meroni, Gennaro Chierchia, and Maria Teresa Guasti: At the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface in Child Language
14. Stefan Kaufman: Probabilities of Conditionals
15. Cecile Meier: Result Clauses
16. Friederike Moltmann: Two Kinds of Universals and two Kinds of Groups
17. Marcin Morzycki: Almost and Its Kin, Across Categories
18. Sei-Rang Oh: Distributivity in an Event Semantics
19. Christopher Pinon: A Finer Look at the Causative-Inchoative Alternation
20. Tanya Reinhart: Experiencing Derivations
21. Uli Sauerland: On the Computation of Conversational Implicatures
22. Barry Schein: Adverbial, Descriptive Reciprocals
23. Mandy Simons: On the Conversational Basis of Some Presuppositions
24. Masha Vassilieva and Richard K. Larson: The Semantics of the Plural Pronoun Construction

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SALT X

Held at Cornell University June 2-4, 2000

Edited by Brendan Jackson and Tanya Matthews
306 pages

Contents

1. Sigrid Beck: Exception in Relational Plurals
2. Greg Carlson and F. Jeffrey Pelletier: Average Noun Phrases
3. Kai von Fintel: Whatever
4. Irene Heim: Degree Operators and Scope
5. Paulene Jacobson: Paychecks, Stress, and Variable-Free Semantics
6. Peter Lasersohn: Same, Models, and Representation
7. Lisa Mathewson: On Distributivity and Pluractionality
8. Toshiyuki Ogihara: Counterfactuals, Temporal Adverbs, and Association with Focus
9. Liina Pylkkanen: Representing Causatives
10. Maribel Romero: Reduced Conditionals and Focus
11. Uli Sauerland: The Content of Pronouns: Evidence from Focus
12. Yael Sharvit and Penka Stateva: Against 'Long' Movement of the Superlative Operator
13. Gianluca Storto: On the Structure of Indefinite Possessives
14. Veerle Van Geenhoven: Pro Properties, Contra Generalized Kinds
15. Elisabeth Villalta: Spanish Subjunctive Clauses Require Ordered Alternatives
16. Tom Werner: Counting and Bare Plurals
17. Rong Yang: Chinese NPs: Quantification & Distributivity
18. Malte: Zimmerman: The occasional-construction in English and German

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SALT IX

Held at U.C. Santa Cruz February 19-21, 1999

Edited by Tanya Matthews and Devon Strolovitch
315 pages

Contents

1. Barbara Abbot: Support for a Unique Theory of Definites
2. Sigrid Beck: Reciprocals and Cumulation
3. Veneeta Dayal: Bare NP's, Reference to Kinds, and Incorporation
4. Alexis Dimitriadis: Reconciling Dependent Plurals with Each Other
5. Danny Fox: Focus, Parallelism, and Accommodation
6. Silvia Gennari: Embedded Present Tense and Attitude Reports
7. Jeroen Groenendijk: The Logic of Interrogation: Classical Version
8. Jennifer Hay, Christopher Kennedy and Beth Levin: Scalar Structure Underlies Telicity in "Degree Achievements"
9. Jacques Jayez: Imperfectivity and Progressivity: The French Imparfait
10. Christopher Kennedy and Louise McNally: From Event Structure to Scale Structure: Degree Modification in Deverbal Adjectives
11. Manfred Krifka: Quantifying into Question Acts
12. Beth Levin and Malka Rappaport Hovav: Two Structures for Compositionally Derived Events
13. Toshiyuki Ogihara: Double-Access Sentences Generalized
14. Adam Przepiórkowski: On Negative Eventualities, Negative Concord, and Negative Yes/No Questions
15. Maribel Romero: Intensional Choice Functions for Which Phrases
16. Henriette de Swart: Indefinites between Predication and Reference
17. Veerle van Geenhoven: A Before and After Picture of When-, Before-, and After- Clauses

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SALT VIII

Held at MIT May 8-10, 1998

Edited by Devon Strolovitch and Aaron Lawson
283 pages

Contents

1. Ana Arregui and Kiyomi Kusumoto: Tense in Temporal Adverb Clauses
2. Sigrid Beck: NP Dependent Readings of different
3. Daniel Büring: Identity, Modality, and the Candidate Behind the Wall
4. Yael Greenberg: Temporally Restricted Generics
5. Pauline Jacobson: Antecedent Contained Deletion and Pied-Piping: Evidence for a Variable-Free Semantics
6. Angelika Kratzer: More Structural Analogies Between Pronouns and Tenses
7. Manfred Krifka: Additive Particles under Stress
8. Takeo Kurafuji: Dynamic Binding and the E-Type Strategy: Evidence from Japanese
9. Richard K. Larson: Events and Modifications in Nominals
10. Toshiyuki Ogihara: Tense, Aspect, and Argument Structure
11. Orin Percus: A Somewhat More Definite Article
12. Chia-Yi Tony Pi and Osamuyimen T. Stewart: Micro-Events in Two Serial Verb Constructions
13. Hotze Rullmann and Sigrid Beck: Presupposition Projection and the Interpretation of which-Questions
14. Yael Sharvit: Individual Concepts and Attitude Reports
15. Yoad Winter: Atom Predicates and Set Predicates: Towards a General Theory of Plural Quantification
16. R. Zuber: On the Semantics of Exclusion and Inclusion Phrases

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SALT VII

Held at Stanford University April 21-23, 1997

Edited by Aaron Lawson
311 pages

Contents

1. Dorit Abusch and Mats Rooth: Epistemic NP Modifiers
2. Nicholas Asher, Daniel Hardt and Joan Busquets: Discourse Parallelism, Scope, and Ellipsis
3. Franz Beil: The Definiteness Effect in Attributive Comparatives.
4. Christine Brisson: On Definite Plural NP's and the Meaning of all.
5. Gennaro Chierchia: Partitives, Reference to Kinds and Semantic Variation
6. Vaneeta Dayal: Free Relatives and Ever Identity and Free Choice Readings
7. Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin: Types of Predicates and the Representation of Existential Readings
8. Vivienne Fong: A Diphasic Approach to Directional Locatives
9. Anette Frank and Hans Kamp: On Context Dependence in Modal Constructions
10. Sheila Glasbey: I-Level Predicates that Allow Existential Readings for Bare Plurals
11. Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach: Dynamic Action Semantics and Deontic Operators
12. Irene Heim: Predicates or Formulas? Evidence from Ellipsis
13. Roumyana Izvorski: The Present Perfect as an Epistemic Modal
14. Christopher Kennedy: Comparison and Polar Opposition
15. Rodger Kibble: Complement Anaphora and Dynamic Binding
16. Christopher Pinon: Achievements in Event Semantics
17. Joost Zwarts and Yoad Winter: A Semantic Characterization of Locative PPs

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SALT VI

Held at Rutgers University April 26-28, 1996

Edited by Teresa Galloway and Justin Spence
354-pages

Contents

1. Samuel Bayer: The Size of Events
2. Daniel Buring: A Weak Theory of Strong Readings
3. Donka Farkas and Anastasia Giannakidou: How Clause-bounded is the Scope of Universals?
4. Tim Fernando and Hans Kamp: Expecting Many
5. Nissim Francez and Yoad Winter: A Generalized Definition of Quantifier Absorption
6. Herman Hendriks: Information Packaging: From Cards to Boxes
7. Martin Honcoop: Towards a Dynamic Semantics Account of Weak Islands
8. Pauline Jacobson: The Locality of Interpretation: The Case of Binding and Coordination
9. Manfred Krifka: Pragmatic Strengthening in Plural Predications and Donkey Sentences
10. Peter Lasersohn: Adnominal Conditionals
11. Renate Musan: 'There'-Constructions Revisited
12. Manfred Pinkal: Vagueness, Ambiguity, and Underspecification
13. Mats Rooth: On the Interface Principles for Intonational Focus
14. Yael Sharvit: Functional Dependencies and Indirect Binding
15. Mandy Simons: Disjunction and Anaphora
16. Beverly Spejewski: Temporal Subordination and the English Perfect
17. Robert Stalnaker: On the Representation of Context
18. Yoad Winter: What Does the Strongest Meaning Hypothesis Mean?
19. Dag E. Wold: Long Distance Selective Binding: The Case of Focus
20. Sandro Zucchi and Michael White: Twigs, Sequences, and the Temporal Constitution of Predicates.

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SALT V

Held at the University of Texas at Austin February 24-26, 1995

Edited by Mandy Simons and Teresa Galloway
422 pages

Contents

1. Chris Barker: Episodic -ee in English: Thematic Relations and New Word Formation
2. Reinhard Blutner: Normality in Update Semantics
3. Daniel Buring: The Great Scope Inversion Conspiracy
4. Giulia Centineo: The Distribution of si in Italian Transitive/Inchoative Pairs
5. Veneeta Dayal: Licensing any in Non-negative/ Non-modal Contexts
6. Anastasia Giannakidou: Subjunctive, Habituality and Negative Polarity Items
7. Jeroen Groenendijk, Martin Stokhof and Frank Veltman: Coreference and Contextually Restricted Quantification
8. Eric Jackson : Negative Polarity and General Statements
9. Yookyung Kim and Stanley Peters: Semantics and Pragmatic Context- Dependence: The Case of Reciprocals
10. Utpal Lahiri: Negative Polarity in Hindi
11. Knud Lambrecht: Compositional vs. Constructional Meaning: The Case of French comme-N
12. Alex Lascarides and Ann Copestake: The Pragmatics of Word Meaning
13. Jan Lerner and Manfred Pinkal: Comparative Ellipsis and Variable Binding
14. Claudia Maienborn: Towards a Compositional Semantics for Locative Modifiers
15. Friederike Moltmann: Part-Structure Modifiers
16. Toshiyuki Ogihara: Non-Factual before and Adverbs of Quantification
17. Robin Schafer: The SLP/ILP Distinction in have-Predication
18. Anatoli Strigin: Abductive Inference During Update: The German preposition mit
19. Satoshi Tomioka: [Focus]F Restricts Scope: Quantifier in VP Ellipsis
20. Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria: Negative Polarity Item Licensing, Indefinites and Complex Predicates
21. Arnim von Stechow: On the Proper Treatment of Tense
22. Yoad Winter: Syncategorematic Conjunction and Structured Meanings
23. Joost Zwarts: The Semantics of Relative Position

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SALT IV

Held at the University of Rochester May 6-8, 1994

Edited by Mandy Harvey and Lynn Santelmann
299 pages

Contents

1. Nicholas Asher and Pierre Sablayrolles: A Compositional Spatio-temporal Semantics for French Motion Verbs and Spatial PPs
2. Emmon Bach: The Meanings of Words
3. David Beaver: When Variables Don't Vary Enough
4. Mary Dalrymple, Makato Kanazawa, Sam Mchombo and Stanley Peters: What do Reciprocals Mean?
5. Paul Dekker: Predicate Logic with Anaphora
6. Viviane Déprez: Questions with Floated Quantifiers
7. David Dowty: The Role of Negative Polarity and Concord Marking in Natural Language Reasoning
8. Jack Hoeksema: A Semantic Argument for Complex Predicates
9. Pauline Jacobson: Binding Connectivity in Copular Sentences
10. Emiel Krahmer and Reinhard Muskens: Umbrellas and Bathrooms
11. Manfred Krifka: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Weak and Strong Polarity Items in Assertions
12. William A. Ladusaw: Thetic and Categorical, Stage and Individual, Weak and Strong
13. Sally McConnell-Ginet: On the Non-Optionality of Certain Modifiers
14. Toshiyuki Ogihara: Adverbs of Quantification and Sequence-of-Tense Phenomena
15. Matthias Paul: Young Mozart and the Joking Woody Allen: Proper Names, Indivduals and Parts
16. Massimo Poesio: Weak Definites

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SALT III

Held at the University of California at Irvine March 5-7, 1993

Edited by Utpal Lahiri and Adam Zachary Wyner
219 pages

Contents

1. Chris Barker: A Presuppositional Account of Proportional Ambiguity
2. Dorit Ben-Shalom: Object Wide Scope and Semantic Trees
3. Laurent Pierre Aime Dekydtspotter: The Syntax and Semantics of the French Ne Que Construction
4. Patrick Farrell: The Interplay of Syntax and Semantics in Complement Control
5. Elena Herburger: Focus and the LF of NP Quantification
6. Ruriko Kawashima and Hisatsugu Kitahara: On the Distribution and Interpretation of Subjects and their Numeral Classifiers
7. Edward L. Keenan: Anaphor-Antecedent Assymetry: A Conceptual Necessity?
8. Peter Lasersohn: Lexical Distributivity and Implicit Arguments
9. Gillian Catriona Ramchand: Verbal Nouns and Event Structure in Scottish Gaelic
10. Karina Wilkinson: Towards a Unified Semantics of Even: A Reply to Rooth
11. Ton van der Wouden and Frans Zwarts: A Semantic Analysis of Negative Concord

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SALT II

Available from The Ohio State University

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SALT I

Held at Cornell University April 19-21, 1991

Edited by Steven Moore and Adam Zachary Wyner
250 pages

Contents

1. John Bowers: The Syntax and Semantics of Nominals
2. Rose-Marie Dechaine: Bare Sentences
3. Edit Doron: Point of View as a Factor of Content
4. Jan van Eijck and Fer-Jan de Vries: Dynamic Interpretation and Hoare Deduction: Extended Abstract
5. Kai von Fintel: Exceptive Constructions
6. Janet Hitzeman: Aspect and Adverbials
7. Manfred Krifka: A Compositional Semantics for Multiple Focus Constructions
8. Barbara H. Partee: Topic, Focus and Quantification
9. Paul Portner: Gerunds and Types of Events
10. Craige Roberts: Distributivity and Reciprocal Distributivity
11. Veneeta Srivastav: Uniqueness and Bijection in WH Constructions

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