On December 2, UMass hosted the annual rendition of the Southern New England Workshop in Semantics (SNEWS) (https://snewsling.wordpress.com/snews-2018/). Among talks from graduate students from Harvard, MIT, UConn and Yale, there were two presentations by UMass first year Jonathan Pesetsky (“If yes, If so, and Hypothetical Commitments”) and third year Kimberly Johnson (“Graded past and evidentiality in Muskogee Creek”).