TOM 9

The ninth Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal (TOM) semantics workshop is being held at McGill University on Saturday, April 23.

Both of the invited speakers are faculty semanticists from our department: Michela Ippolito and Guillaume Thomas.

Two grad-students are giving presentations:

 Tomohiro Yokoyama (Ph.D.):
"Three presuppositions of wh-exclamatives in English."

Giuseppe Ricciardi (MA):
"The evidential restriction of the Italian epistemic future."

And two more are presenting posters:

Kaz Bamba (Ph.D.):
"The contrastive morpheme hoo in Japanese comparative constructions."

Angelika Kiss (Ph.D.):
"The negative wh-construction in the discourse."