On Wednesday, 10/07, 1:30pm, Professor Yurie Hara (Hokkaido University) will present the paper From LLM Errors to Linguistic Theory: Human Evaluation of Japanese Particle Predictions. This is joint work with Hoi Man Kevin Li and John S. Y. Lee of Hong Kong City University. Abstract attached. The paper will be presented at Linguistic Evidence 2026, to be held in Mannheim, Germany, October 15-16. Yurie Hara is visiting us at UConn during all of October and November.
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We will meet on Wednesday, 09/30, 1:30-2:30pm in SSH 338. Kanta Tateno will lead the discussion of the paper “Tense and perspective: a solution to the ‘then’-present puzzle” by Anastasia Tsilia and Zhuoye Zhao (Linguistics and Philosophy, 2026).
The Meaning Group will meet on Wednesday, September 9, 1:30-2:30pm, in SHH338. Jon Gajewski and Magdalena Kaufmann will present their paper “Lying when licensing NPIs”, presented at Sinn und Bedeutung last week.
The discussion of the Onea et al. paper that was originally planned for this week will happen later this semester.
On Wednesday, 04/29, Jon will lead the discussion on Roberts & Özyıldız “A causal explanation for the contrafactive gap” (paper here: https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/009050 ).
On Wednesday, 04/22, Qi will lead the discussion on Yenan Sun (2023) “Incompleteness and (not-)at-issue Updates in Mandarin Chinese”.
The Logic Colloquium this Friday, April 10, 2:00pm in SHH 401 (with a hybrid option) will feature Dean McHugh (Edinburgh/NYU).
Conditional Modality with Alternatives
This talk brings together two ideas. First, that statements under a modal are interpreted as conditional antecedents. ‘Possibly A’ states that if A were true, there would be some case where the relevant ideals are met. Dually, ‘necessarily A’ states that if A were false, there would be no case where the relevant ideals are met. Second, conditional antecedents are interpreted via sets of alternatives, with some items—such as disjunction and ‘any’—introducing multiple alternatives. Combining them returns, in a uniform and automatic way, a solution to three challenges facing the standard theory of modality: free choice inferences, independence inferences, and counterexamples to substitution of logical equivalents.
On Wednesday, March 25 (9am, SHH 338), Stefan Kaufmann will give a pre-version of his presentation “Directions in Modality” for the upcoming Workshop “Modality in Logic and Language” (TLLM 2026) at Tsinghua University, Beijing (https://tsinghualogic.net/JRC/tllm-2026/ ).
On Wednesday, 02/18, 9am in SSH 338, Eli Herbst will lead the discussion of Mendia (2020) “One more comparative: The de/que distinction in Spanish comparatives”, NLLT 38: 581-626.
On Wednesday, 02/11, 9am in SSH 338, Stefan Kaufmann will lead the discussion of von Fintel and Pasternak (2025) “Attitudes, aboutness, and indirect restriction”, Linguistics and Philosophy 48, pp. 603-645.
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