Semantics and Linguistic Theory

This periodical publication contains articles developed from work presented at the annual Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) conference, North America's foremost conference devoted to natural language semantics with relevance to linguistic theory.

SALT 31 was hosted by Brown University and held virtually on May 7–9, 2021. The website for the conference is available here. Please contact us at salt-mailbox@cornell.edu for questions regarding the proceedings.


Proceedings of SALT 31

Proceedings of the 31st Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held virtually at Brown University, May 7-9, 2021, edited by Nicole Dreier, Chloe Kwon, Thomas Darnell, and John Starr.

Table of Contents

Articles

Binding without variables: Solving the under-generation problems
Yimei Xiang
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001-020
A diachronic explanation for cross-linguistic variation in the use of inverse-scope constructions
Omri Amiraz
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021-041
Modifying result states in Turkish
Furkan Dikmen, Ömer Demirok
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042-060
Modality in the nominal domain: Yalnhej DPs in Chuj
Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Justin Royer
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061-081
Intervention Effects follow from Scope Rigidity in Turkish
Ömer Demirok
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082-103
Disjunctive discourse referents in French Sign Language
Jeremy David Kuhn
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104-121
Imprecision, personae, and pragmatic reasoning
Andrea Beltrama, Florian Schwarz
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122-144
English non-manner how-clauses as answers to deficient questions
Rebecca Elizabeth Jarvis
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145-165
A post-suppositional account of associative plurals in Burmese
Keely New
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166-183
(Non-)factive (non-)islands and meaning-based approaches
Kajsa Djärv, Maribel Romero
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184-200
Reciprocity without reciprocal pronouns
Takanobu Nakamura
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201-220
Restricting the fourth reading
Ido Benbaji
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221-240
Prosody is adding what?: Echo questions are not a thing
Maria Biezma, Bettina Braun, Angela James
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241-261
Reference to dependencies established in multiple-wh questions
Haoze Li
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262-282
Contextual restrictions on cumulativity
Nina Haslinger
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283-303
The dual life of embedded CPs: Evidence from Russian čto-clauses
Tatiana Bondarenko
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304-323
Modelling Selectional Super-Flexibility
Kristina Liefke
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324-344
Which Presuppositions are Subject to Contextual Felicity Constraints?
Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox
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345-364
Bare Singulars and Pseudo-Incorporation in Western Armenian
Alexandros Kalomoiros
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365-384
Connoisseurial Contradictions: Expertise modulates faultless disagreement
Deniz Rudin, Elsi Kaiser
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385-404
Q-particles in embedded declaratives, mood, and clausal complementation
Teruyuki Mizuno
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405-425
Might and might not: Children's conceptual development and the acquisition of modal verbs
Brian Leahy, Eimantas Zalnieriunas
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426-445
Toward a unified semantics for English "either"
William Carl Thomas
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446-465
Challenge Problems for a Theory of Degree Multiplication (with partial answer key)
Elizabeth Coppock
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466-483
Comparative Anaphora: comparing alternatives
Ang Li
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484-505
Scalar diversity and ignorance inferences: An experimental study on 'at least' as a modifier of numerals vs. adjectives
Stavroula Alexandropoulou
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506-529
Zero, Null Individuals, and Nominal Semantics in Cantonese
Marcin Morzycki, Hary Chow
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530-549
Granularity in the Semantics of Comparison
Helena Aparicio, Curtis Chen, Roger Levy, Elizabeth Coppock
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550-569
Intensional Gaps: Relating veridicality, factivity, doxasticity, bouleticity, and neg-raising
Benjamin Kane, Will Gantt, Aaron Steven White
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570-605
Apprehensive and frustrative uses of before
Chloé Tahar
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606-628
Modal vs. deictic evidentials in ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Comox-Sliammon)
Marianne Huijsmans, Daniel K. E. Reisinger
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629-646
Lexically triggered uniquenes in wh-questions: An argument from Brazilian Portuguese
Vincent Rouillard, Filipe Hisao Kobayashi
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647-661
Modally conditioned mood-switch: The Case of ADVISE-Predicates in Greek
Despina Oikonomou
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662-682
Deriving polarity from granularity
Julie Goncharov, Lavi Wolf
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683-702