Conditionals

My paper “When if or when specify modals” has been published online in the WCCFL 38 proceedings. Download the paper directly.

I gave a talk at the online workshop “Combining functional with formal approaches”, organised by the University of Zürich. The title of my presentation was “From parallel corpora to the formal study of compositional variation”. Download the slides.

As part of the Time in Translation research project, I organize an online worskhop “Conditionals, Corpora, and Translation” on Oct 30, 2020. I will give a talk Conditionals in Translation: towards Translation Mining in a compositional setting.

I gave a talk at the online conference Probability and Meaning (PaM) 2020. The title of my presentation was “Conditional answers and the role of probabilistic epistemic representations”. Download the accompanying paper here.

I gave a talk at WCCFL 38, at UBC in Vancouver. Title: When if or when specify modals. Download the paper.

I gave a talk at CLIN 30 in Utrecht. Title: Translation mining in the domain of conditionals: first results.

I presented a poster at the RAILS workshop in Saarbrücken, titled “On the utility of conditional answers”. Download the poster.

I gave a talk in Nijmegen at the Grammar and Cognition Colloquium, titled The Relevance of Conditional Answers. Handout here.

I gave a colloquium at Stony Brook’s Department of Linguistics. Title: The prosody of additives and the plurality of causation. Handout

This paper analyzes the behavior of still in subjunctive conditionals. It presents a novel three-way empirical distinction that shows that in certain counterfactual contexts, still behaves like an additive particle. I provide a unified analysis for aspectual still, still in semifactuals, and a third use newly introduced here. I propose a revision of the standard event-based semantics of aspectual still (Ippolito 2007) in order to make it embeddable under modal operators.