Sinn und Bedeutung 31

Sinn und Bedeutung 31 (SuB 31) is one of the most prestigious annual conferences in formal semantics and pragmatics, bringing together linguists who use logical and mathematical tools to analyze how natural language expressions encode and communicate meaning. The 31st edition continues a tradition of rigorous, theoretically engaged scholarship on topics ranging from the semantics of quantification to the pragmatics of implicature.

The conference covers plurality and distributivity, tense and aspect, modality, questions, focus, presupposition, and the syntax-semantics interface, drawing attendees from formal semantics, pragmatics, and adjacent areas of syntax and philosophy of language. SuB is particularly welcoming of work that integrates experimental data with theoretical analysis, reflecting the broader turn toward empirical accountability in formal semantics. It is an indispensable annual event for anyone working in the formal study of natural language meaning.

formal semantics pragmatics plurality distributivity linguistic meaning semantic theory natural language semantics discourse semantics