SALT 30

The 30th Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 30) conference is being held online from August 17 through 20, hosted by Cornell University and featuring a welcome address from university president Martha Pollack, a computational linguist by training.

• Daphna Heller (faculty) is part of a poster presentation with Sadhwi Srinivas (Johns Hopkins University) and Kyle Rawlins (Johns Hopkins University): "Asymmetries between uniqueness and familiarity in the semantics of definite descriptions."
• Julie Goncharov (Ph.D. 2015, now at the University of Tromsø) is giving a talk: "Dynamic presupposition of want and polarity sensitivity."
• Recent faculty member Meg Grant (Simon Fraser University) is part of a talk with Fabienne Martin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Florian Schäfer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), and Christopher Piñón (Université Lille 3): "A new case of low modality: Goal PPs."
• Spanish and Portuguese MA graduate Filipe Hisao Kobayashi (now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is part of a talk with Vincent Rouillard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "High and low exhaustification in singular which-questions."
• Filipe Hisao Kobayashi is also presenting a poster: "Composing reciprocity: An analysis of scattered reciprocals."