37.2256, Confs: Sinn und Bedeutung 31 (France)

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Date: 02-Jul-2026
From: Orin Percus [sub31.nantes at gmail.com]
Subject: Sinn und Bedeutung 31


Sinn und Bedeutung 31
Short Title: SuB31

Date: 01-Sep-2026 - 04-Sep-2026
Location: Nantes, France
Contact: SuB31 Nantes
Contact Email: sub31.nantes at gmail.com
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/sub31nantes

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Semantics

Sinn und Bedeutung 31
Nantes Université
Main session: September 2-4, 2026
Pre-conference workshop “Plurality and Distributivity across lexical
categories”: September 1, 2026
SuB31, organized by the Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (Nantes
Université/CNRS). will be held at Nantes Université.  The main session
will take place on September 2-4, with invited speakers Márta Abrusán
(CNRS-Institut Jean Nicod), Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam),
Aron Hirsch (University of Maryland) and Elin McCready (ICREA -
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).  There will additionally be a
pre-conference workshop, “Plurality and Distributivity across lexical
categories,” on September 1, with invited speaker Viola Schmitt (MIT).
A provisional program including all the accepted talks and posters
appears below.  A more complete final program will be posted in the
coming weeks.
To register for the conference, please use the link at
https://sub31.sciencesconf.org/ . (This will require you to create a
sciencesconf account.  Note that, after creating this account, you
will have to log in with the username you have chosen rather than with
your e-mail address.)
IMPORTANT: We ask participants to register by *July 15*, if at all
possible.  If you anticipate problems, please let us know before that
date by writing to sub31.nantes at gmail.com. We apologize for this very
close deadline, which is due to the fact that many university
functions shut down during the summer months.  Unfortunately, it will
not be possible to register on site.
Sinn und Bedeutung is a conference of the Gesellschaft für Semantik.
SuB31 gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Van
Riemsdijk Foundation and Nantes Université.
WORKSHOP – Plurality and distributivity across lexical categories
September 1, 2026
Invited talk: Viola Schmitt (title TBA)
Guillaume Thomas, Germano Duarte - Adverbial quantification,
event-internal plurality and distance distributivity in Mbya Guarani.
David Blunier - On the individual/event asymmetry: the case of sign
language plurals.
Sybil Vachaudez, Samantha Prins, Juan Sian Ajsivinac, Carlo Geraci,
Robert Henderson, Jeremy Kuhn - Reduplication strategies & Scopal
interaction at the syntax-semantics interface: evidence from Highland
Mayan Sign Language.
Mary Moroney - Long-distance restrictions on distributivity.
Cecilia Fernández-Altonaga, Jürgen Etxeberria Gonzalez, Ane Berro -
Lexical plural across categories in Basque.
Woo Jin Choi - Distribution over multiple dimensions of an event in
Korean.
Ruoying Zhao, Abdullah Almuhaysh, Marcin Wągiel, Luca Molinari,
Victoria Noble - Event quantification with Hasawi Arabic singulative
suffix -at.
Janek Guerrini - Restricted subatomic distributivity.
Luciana Sanchez Mendes - Semantic interpretations of nominal plurality
in Wapishana.
SuB MAIN SESSION, DAY 1
September 2, 2026
Invited talk: Márta Abrusán (title TBA)
Lightning talk & poster session 1:
Sam Alxatib - Local contexts in formal alternatives.
Isabelle Charnavel, Anouk Dieuleveut, Lena Higginson, Julianne
Magalhães Costa, Tom Meadows, Dominique Sportiche - How to do our
best: experimentally investigating conditions on sloppy indexicals
with idioms.
Cornelia Ebert - Exceptional wide scope readings as implicit private
pointing gestures.
Ilaria Frana, Paula Menendez-Benito - A new type of non-flipped
question in Italian.
Lennart Fritzsche - Is commitment ever really shared?
Achille Fusco, Valentina Bianchi, Silvio Cruschina, Maria F. Ferin -
Why traditions want but books do not: the semantics of Italian
_volere_.
Tomasz Klochowicz - Counterfactuals in Bilateral State-Based Logic of
Neglect Zero.
Jakob Majdič - Context structure and the meaning of PAST morphology.
Sophie Repp, Max Bonke - Anaphoric reference to modalized propositions
under negation.
Merel Semeijn - Snape kills Dumbledore, but Dumbledore is not dead.
Claire Rong, Benjamin Spector - Plurals under universal
quantification: disentangling readings from gradient effects.
Yenan Sun, Ka Hin Ng - A Maximize Presupposition account for the
co-occurrence of _zhiyou_ and _cai_.
Lyn Tieu, Natalia Liu, Selina Zheng, Sebastian Walter - Investigating
depictive and symbolic uses of emoji through contrastive inferences.
Yimei Xiang - A unified theory of anti-exhaustification: FCI/NPI
_renhe_, PPI _he_, and homogeneity.
Afternoon session A :
Stephanie Solt, Andreea Nicolae - Flips and gaps in the domain of
polarity sensitive degree modifiers.
Valeria Gradimondo, Lucia M. Tovena, Timothée Bernard - Minimality
with and without an expectation: Italian _appena_ vs. French _à
peine_.
Kenta Mizutani, Eri Tanaka - Peculiar distribution of modified
numerals in Japanese and van Benthem’s Problem.
Yağmur Sağ, Ryan Walter Smith - Plurals of plural pronouns in Turkish
nominals.
Maumita Bhaumik, Uli Sauerland - Conditional disjunction.
Afternoon session B:
Lisa Hofmann - Complement anaphora and the anaphoric potential of
negated quantifiers.
Yusuke Yagi - Selective quantification of dynamic alternatives.
Peter R Sutton, Robin Cooper - Nominal that-complementisers:
eventualities, situations and polysemy.
Mats Rooth - Merged modality for believe+likely.
Madeline K Snigaroff - Deriving the flavor and force of insubordinate
clauses in Aleut.
SuB MAIN SESSION, DAY 2
September 3, 2026
Morning invited talk: Aron Hirsch (title TBA)
Lightning talk & poster session 2:
Ido Benbaji-Elhadad - Intensions and plurality: a disanalogy between
worlds and times.
Adina Camelia Bleotu, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu - Children’s conjunctive
interpretation of disjunction: default or implicature?
Mariana I. Calderón-Corona, Ozge Bakay - Resolving semantic ambiguity
via agreement: the case of Spanish adjectival conjuncts.
Jiayuan Chen - A modular theory of definites and demonstratives, with
evidence from focus.
Émile Enguehard - French response particles without polarity: insights
from high and low negation.
Casey D. Felton, Masoud Jasbi - Exclusivity manner implicatures.
Julie Goncharov - Intentionality off the lexicon: a perspective
continuum.
Kenta Kakenami - Japanese quotative adjuncts and their licensing by
relevance.
Madeline Ladore - The semantics of -wɔ, a borrowed plural marker in
Logba (Ikpana).
Yitong Luo, Clara Terlaak, Xiaomeng Zhu, Athulya Aravind - Complement
size and epistemic effects in perception reports.
David Robin Müller - Drunk me is an idiot: Pronouns as predicates.
Takanobu Nakamura, Kenta Mizutani - Two discourse strategies of
additive Inferences and scope-taking relative to negation.
Minghui Qiu - Ignorance, lexical domain restriction and the Mandarin
wh-numeral jǐ.
William Thomas - The polarity sensitivity of refutational "too".
Afternoon session A:
Nina Haslinger - Measurement-based constraints on the restrictor
predicates of nominal quantifiers nominals.
Mojmír Dočekal, Rhiana Horovská - Scope Over monotonicity: NPI
Licensing with Czech “majority”.
Vincent Rouillard - Until and incremental homogeneity.
Afternoon session B:
Noa Attali, Yvonne Kilian, Gregory Scontras - Non-identical twins:
Accounting for the projection differences between _know_ and _be
right_.
Maribel Romero - Responsive attitudes and Spanish reportative QUE.
Jon Gajewski, Magdalena Kaufmann - Lying when licensing NPIs.
Afternoon invited talk: Elin McCready
SuB MAIN SESSION, DAY 3
September 4, 2026
Invited talk: Maria Aloni – Nothing is logical.
Morning session A:
Milica Denic - ‘Even’ in exceptive constructions.
Luka Crnic - Accommodation in sluicing.
Ka-Fai Yip - A scalar focus approach to exclusive doubling in
Vietnamese.
Morning session B:
Sahil Patel, Prerna Nadathur - To be perfect and to be progressive:
aspectual distinctions through the Gujarati copula.
Qi Wu – Let’s work and see if try is see: Varieties and composition of
try in Mandarin see-as-try constructions.
Fred Whibley - Non-maximality in the event domain: towards a
decision-theoretic approach to partial-change readings in English
accomplishments.
Afternoon session A:
Hotze Rullmann - Eventualities as contexts.
Eno Agolli -Two-dimensional individual concepts.
James J. Engels - On inaccessible and undesirable situations.
Afternoon session B:
Yichi Raven Zhang - Discourse retraction via negative projection.
Ashwini Deo, Sampada Deshpande - Commenting on an evaluative potential
question: the _kya_-downarrow strategy in Hindi-Urdu.
Melanie Knezevic - Focus-sensitive operators and collective group
events.



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