Events
- World Sequence Day
Symposium held at the University of Connecticut, May 24, 2024. - Conditional Thought and Talk: Semantic, Pragmatic, and Cross-linguistic Perspectives
Workshop held at the University of Connecticut, October 21-22, 2022
Publications
Books
- Kaufmann, Stefan, David Over and Ghanshyam Sharma, editors. 2023. Conditionals: Logic, Linguistics and Psychology. Palgrave MacMillan.
Refereed Papers
- Kaufmann, Stefan. 2023. How fake is Fake Past? In Kaufmann, Stefan, David Over and Ghanshyam Sharma, editors, Conditionals: Logic, Linguistics and Psychology, pages 389-423. Palgrave MacMillan.
- Yang, Muyi. 2022. Singularity and plurality of discourse reference to worlds. In Starr, John R., Juhyae Kim, and Burak Öney, editors, Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 32), pages 1-21.
- Mizuno, Teruyuki and Stefan Kaufmann. 2022. Past-as-Past in counterfactual desire reports: a view from Japanese. In Starr, John R., Juhyae Kim, and Burak Öney, editors, Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 32), pages 83-103.
- Kaufmann, Stefan. 2022. Bernoulli Semantics and Ordinal Semantics for conditionals. Journal of Philosophical Logic 52:199-220.
- Kaufmann, Magdalena and John Whitman. 2022. Conditional conjunctions informed by Japanese and Korean. Linguistics Vanguard 8:479-490.
- Yang, Muyi. 2022. Iffy discourse: Japanese moshi in conditionals and nominal topics. Linguistics Vanguard 8:421-433.
- Kaufmann, Magdalena and Stefan Kaufmann. 2021. Iffy endorsements. Journal of Semantics 38(4):639–665.
- Yang, Muyi. 2021. Sensitive to future: the case of Japanese nara-conditionals. In Butler, Alastair, editor, Proceedings of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS) 18, pages 119–132.
(Other) Presentations
- Yang, Muyi. Back to Boolean: Rethinking clausal conjunctions in attitude ascriptions. Sinn und Bedeutung 28, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany, September 5-8, 2024.
- Yagi, Yusuke. Local context of logical connectives is not universal: A case study of Japanese disjunction. Sinn und Bedeutung 28, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany, September 5-8, 2024.
- Kaufmann, Magdalena, Stefan Kaufmann, Teruyuki Mizuno and Muyi Yang. Problem solving with Japanese 'beki'. Poster presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 28, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany, September 5-8, 2024.
- Kaufmann, Magdalena, Stefan Kaufmann, Teruyuki Mizuno and Muyi Yang. Problem solving with Japanese 'beki'. Workshop on Semantics and Pragmatics, Ogoto-onsen, Shiga, Japan, July 24-25, 2023.
- Kaufmann, Magdalena and Stefan Kaufmann. Just in case? 2023 Tokyo Workshop on Computational and Theoretical Semantics, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan, July 21, 2023.
- Kaufmann, Stefan. Shifty if's iffy shifts. 2023 Tokyo Workshop on Computational and Theoretical Semantics, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan, July 21, 2023.
- Kaufmann, Magdalena. Conditional conjunctions and types of conditionals. Linguistics Colloquium, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, July 7, 2023.
- Kaufmann, Magdalena. Complex events in conditional conjunctions. METU Workshop on Conditional and Causal Reasoning (METU-WCCR), METU Language and Cognitive Development Laboratory, Gökova, Muğla, Turkey, March 21-23, 2023.
- Kaufmann, Stefan. Sculpting suppositions. METU Workshop on Conditional and Causal Reasoning (METU-WCCR), METU Language and Cognitive Development Laboratory, Gökova, Muğla, Turkey, March 21-23, 2023.
- Kaufmann, Stefan. Speaking of possibility and time. UConn Humanities Institute Fellow's talk, February 1, 2023.
- Kaufmann, Stefan. What can you say? UConn Philosophy Brownbag, December 7, 2022.
- Kaufmann, Stefan. Shifty if's iffy shifts. International Conference on Tense and Aspect in Conditionals. INALCO, Paris, November 2-4, 2022.
- Mizuno, Teruyuki. Strategies for Anderson conditionals: their implications to the typology of O- and X-markings. International Conference on Tense and Aspect in Conditionals. INALCO, Paris, November 2-4, 2022.
- Kaufmann, Magdalena. How to be impossible or remote. Linguistics Colloquium, MIT, Cambridge, MA. October 14, 2022.
- Kaufmann, Stefan. Was I speaking before I spoke? Converging on Causal Ontology Analysis (COCOA) zoominar. October 12, 2022. Online.
- Kaufmann, Magdalena. Conjoining(,) conditionals and coherence relations. Philosophy of Language and Linguistics. Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 5-9, 2022.
- Kaufmann, Magdalena. A compositional take on directive microvariation. SPAGAD Lecture Series, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany. July 1, 2022. Online.
- Kaufmann, Stefan. How fake is fake Past? The Composition of Meaning Workshop, Stanford University, May 19, 2022. Online.
- Kaufmann, Magdalena. Tracking presumed control. Agency and Intentions in Language 2, Harvey Mudd College. January 14, 2022. Online.
- Yang, Muyi. Questions in conditional antecedents. Language and Logic Forum: Conditionals in Chinese Revisited, Beijing Normal University, online/Beijing, July 1-3, 2022.
- Kaufmann, Magdalena. Topics in conjunctions are conditional. Discourse in Philosophy (DIP) Colloquium, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. December 17, 2021. Online.
- Yang, Muyi. Sensitive to future: the discourse dynamics of Japanese nara-conditionals. Semantics Workshop in Tokai and Kansai, Nagoya, Japan. September 18, 2021. Online.
- Mizuno, Teruyuki. On the origin of ‘counterfactuality’ in counterfactual conditionals. Semantics Workshop in Tokai and Kansai, Nagoya, Japan. September 4, 2021. Online.
Teaching
- Conditionals 2022 (école thématique CNRS). Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris, France, June 13-17, 2022.
- Magdalena Kaufmann: Conditionals without if – tracking conditional meaning across languages
- Stefan Kaufmann: Logical properties and linguistic expression of conditional meaning