Linguistics Graduate Students Jia Ren and Andrea Matticchio Present at Prominent Conference in Italy
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Linguistics graduate students Jia Ren and Andrea Matticchio recently presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 29, a prominent European conference devoted to formal semantics, pragmatics, and linguistics, held in Noto, Italy, on Sept. 17-19.
Ren delivered both a talk and a poster. Her talk was entitled, "An experimental investigation of the homogeneity of conjunctions", while her poster—co-authored with Linguistics students Satoru Ozaki and Qiuhao Charles Yan— was on "Quantificational Determiners vs. Partitive Nouns in Mandarin Chinese".
Matticchio’s poster, co-authored with Maik Thalmann, was entitled "Trading beliefs: A new view on importation".
The Sinn und Bedeutung 29 conference is jointly organized by the Department of Cognitive Sciences, Psychology, Education and Cultural Studies, University of Messina and the Department of Humanities, Foreign Languages and Education, University of Enna “Kore”. The conference featured a three-day main session and two satellite events, a pre-event workshop entitled "Evidentials in non-canonical speech acts", and a post-event workshop entitled "Does semantics have a 'too many tools' problem?”.