McGill linguists of past and present were well represented at Sinn und Bedeutung 21, which took place this past weekend in Edinburgh. Presentations and posters included:
- Francesco Paolo Gentile & Bernhard Schwarz Maximizing pragmatic informativity: Non-distributive predication in degree questions
- Alanah Mckillen Strict readings of anaphors in focus constructions
- Brian Buccola (PhD ’15) & Andreas Haida A surface-scope analysis of authoritative readings of modified numerals
- Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten & Keir Moulton (Postdoc ’09–’11) Nominalized clauses and reference to propositional content
- Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (Postdoc ’14–’15) & Hadas Kotek (Post-doc ’14–16) UntanglingTanglewood using covert focus movement
- Aron Hirsch (BA ’11) Disjoined questions as mention-some questions