Sinn & Bedeutung is the major European conference on semantics as a linguistic discipline. From September 4-6, UMass will be represented there by 18 current and former graduate students giving a total of 11 full-length papers and 5 posters. All abstracts of papers and posters for the whole conference can be downloaded here.

Papers:
Kyle Rawlins (Johns Hopkins, 2003 UMass BA) on question agnosticism and change of state (with Aaron Steven White).
María Biezma (University of Konstanz, 2011 UMass PhD) on the pragmatic ingredients to get perfect biscuits (with Arno Goebel).
Rodica Ivan & Deniz Özy?ld?z on the temporal presuppositions of Somali definite determiners.
Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten (University of Gothenburg, 2016 UMass PhD) & Keir Moulton (Simon Fraser, 2009 UMass PhD) on nominalized clauses and reference to propositional content.
Thuy Bui on the Vietnamese perfect.
Hsin-Lun Huang on the role of classifiers in licensing Mandarin existential wh-phrases.
Amy Rose Deal (UC Berkeley, 2010 UMass PhD) on number marking and bare noun interpretation in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec (with Julia Nee).
Bernhard Schwarz (McGill, 2000 UMass PhD) on maximizing pragmatic informatively: Non-distributive predication in degree questions (with Francesco Paolo Gentile).
Mats Rooth & Dorit Abusch (both Cornell University, both 1985 UMass PhD) on picture descriptions and centered content.
Mioko Miyama (2015/16 UMass Fulbright scholar) on the proper treatment of the wide scope reading of English either … or.
Ekaterina Vostrikova on the similarity between unless and only-if-not.

Posters:
Andrew Weir (NTNU Trondheim, 2014 UMass PhD) on cointensional questions and their implications for questions and fragment answers.
A. Marlijn Meijer (visiting graduate student, Fall 2016) on modal subordination of propositions: the Dutch and German modal particles ook and auch and the subjunctive (with Sophie Repp).
Florian Schwarz (UPenn, 2009 UMass PhD) on cognitive versus emotive factives: an experimental differentiation (with Kajsa Djärv & Jérémy Zehr).
Florian Schwarz (UPenn, 2009 UMass PhD) on presupposition projection from disjunction in online processing (with Aron Hirsch & Jérémy Zehr).
Jon Ander Mendia on overt comparison to a degree.