Law, Sharf, and Tamura at Sinn und Bedeutung 29 (SuB29)

Over the summer, Professor Jess Law, along with PhD students Eli Sharf and Jun Tamura, attended Sinn und Bedeutung 29 (SuB29), held in the picturesque town of Noto, Sicily, Italy. 

Eli delivered a solo talk on “Speech Acts Without Sincerity: An Analysis of Parenthetical Say in English.” Jess, along with Professor Haoze Li, presented a joint talk titled “Discourse Dynamics as a Cure to the Problem of Too Many Uniqueness Conditions.” Jun presented two posters: one solo poster on “Relative Readings of Japanese ichiban Superlatives” and a joint poster also with Haoze titled “Embedded Questions as Definite Descriptions: An Insight from Japanese.” 

In addition to exciting intellectual exchanges, they had the pleasure of reconnecting with some UC Santa Cruz alumni: Lisa Hofmann (currently a postdoctoral researcher at University of Stuttgart), Kelsey Sasaki (currently a research fellow at University of Oxford), and Kyle Rawlins (Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University).