SALT 25 AT STANFORD

SALT 25 took place from Friday May 15th to Sunday May 17th, on Stanford’s ostentatiously beautiful campus. Work by current, former, and future Cruzites was presented—–a talk coauthored by incoming PhD student Tom Roberts (On double access, cessation and parentheticality; joint work with Daniel Altshuler, Valentine Hacquard and alumnus Aaron White); a talk coauthored by alum Louise McNally (The -ing dynasty: rebuilding the semantics of nominalizations, joint work with Scott Grimm); and a rockstar invited talk by Adrian Brasoveanu (Incremental and predictive interpretation: Experimental evidence and possible accounts), joint work with Jakub Dotlačil. There was a poster by alumn Chris Kennedy, co-authored with Helena Aparicio and Ming Xiang. Daniel Büring, a former UCSC visiting professor, was among the invited speakers. Many Cruzites past and present were in attendance as well. A non-exhaustive list includes: Donka Farkas, Amy Rose Deal, Christine Gunlogson, Chris Potts, Peter Alrenga, Boris Harizanov, Bern Samko, Karen Duek, Hitomi Hirayama, and Veronika Richtarcikova. With Chris Gunlogson/Kennedy/Potts all present, there was a quorum of UCSC Chris semanticists in attendance and a nearly complete reunion of the Four Chris(s)es of Alumni Conference fame. Honeydew and banana bread were consumed in startling quantities. Meaning was discussed. Much was learned.