Introductory remarks

Session 1
Alec Kienzle (U of T):
A reassessment of the semantics and pragmatics of English rise-fall-rise intonation
Angelika Kiss: (U of T): Epistemic stance in declarative questions
Jin Ji (McGill): Pair-list Interpretation of Specificational Pseudoclefts

Break

Lightning talks

Break

Lunch & Poster session

Gregory Antono (U of T):
Biased questions in Colloquial Singapore English: the case of "meh"

Sean Riley, Chester Leopold, Zach Savelson, and Raj Singh (Carleton):
Cognitive primitives and number learning

Lara Russo, Tae Bourque Smith, and Ashley Promislow (Carleton):
Determiner Quantifiers in English

Bruno Andreotti (U of T):
Lexical Semantics and Model Theory: Modelling Differences between Taxonomic Conventions

Irene Smith (McGill):
Neg-raising effects of the non-neg-raising predicate try

Garett Sherwood (Carleton):
Presupposition, Assertion, and Oddness: A Study of Contextual Semantic Violations

Samuel Jambrovic (U of T): The singular plurality of family reference

Deniz Askin, Iain Burge, Sabrina Burr, Katie Van Luven, Annabelle Sauve, and Raj Singh (Carleton and PaymentEvolution):
Using transformer neural networks to learn logical forms

Break

Session 2
Crystal Chen (U of T): A comparison of recent literature on demonstratives
Will Johnston (McGill): Nonspecific promises: The Intensional Restitution Effect
Masashi Harada (McGill): On the Plural Projection Analysis of Cumulativity

Break

Invited talk
Alan Bale (Concordia University): 
Agree to disagree: Some notes on the semantics of syntactic agreement