Six Slugs A-sinnin’!
According to Wiktionary, a collective of slugs may be referred to as a cornucopia. With all due emphasis on that modal, there’s no denying that Banana Slugs were copious at last month’s edition of Sinn und Bedeutung. Held at Goethe University Frankfurt, SuB30 featured presentations from many community members:
- Several current Ph.D. students presented talks:
- Emily Knick, Eli Sharf (co-first authors): On focus and the perfect aspect
- Jun Tamura: A clausal analysis of a class of phrasal comparatives in Japanese
- … as did Ph.D. (’22) alum Lisa Hofmann (University of Stuttgart): Experimental evidence for counterfactual propositions as “negative” anaphoric antecedents
- … and recent Visiting Assistant Professor Haoze Li (NTU): From alternates to definites: A dynamic approach to short answers
- … who also, with recent Ph.D. student Yaqing Cao, presented a poster: Negation, Ability Modal, and Causation: How to Derive (Anti)-Actuality Entailments?
You can see most of these folks pictured below!
(l to r): Sharf, Knick, Hofmann, Unidentified Frankfurter, Li, Tamura. Not pictured: Cao.