ZAS at Sinn und Bedeutung 31 (SuB31)

ZAS at Sinn und Bedeutung 31 (SuB31)

ZAS was strongly represented at this year’s Sinn und Bedeutung 31 (SuB31) conference, with several talks and poster presentations. The conference took place from 1 to 4 September at Nantes Université, France.

Sinn und Bedeutung is one of the world’s leading conferences in the fields of formal semantics and pragmatics, bringing together researchers from around the globe to discuss current developments and new research findings.

The following contributions were presented by ZAS researchers:

• M. Bhaumik & U. Sauerland: Conditional disjunction
• A. C. Bletou, A. Benz & L. Tieu: Children’s conjunctive interpretation of disjunction: default or implicature?
• S. Solt & A. Nicolae: Flips and gaps in the domain of polarity sensitive degree modifiers
• N. Haslinger: Measurement-based constraints on the restrictor predicates of nominal quantifiers
• E. Enguehard: French response particles without polarity: insights from high and low negation
• T. Nakamura & K. Mizutani: Two discourse strategies of additive inferences and scope-taking relative to negation