Papers from the conference on semantics and linguistic theory include the following: "Definiteness, Existentials, and the 'List' Interpretation" (Barbara Abbott); "Strong and Weak Novelty and Familiarity" (Cleo Condoravdi); "The Singular-Plural Distinction in Hindi Generics" (Veneeta Srivastav Dayal);" Adverbial Quantification, Complex Conditionals, and Focus" (Kai von Fintel); "Focus and Ellipsis in Comparatives and Superlatives: A Case Study" (Jean Mark Gawron); "A Note on Interrogatives and Adverbs of Quantification" (Jeroen Groenendijk, Martin Stokhof); "On the Semantics and Pragmatics of 'dake' ('And Only')" (Yasunari Harada, Naohiko Noguchi); "VP (Verb Phrase) Ellipsis and Semantic Identity" (Daniel Hardt); "The Said and the Unsaid" (Laurence R. Horn); "Antecedent Contained Deletion in a Variable-Free Semantics" (Pauline Jacobson); "A Framework for Focus-Sensitive Quantification" (Manfred Krifka); "Expressing Negation" (William A. Ladusaw); "On the Interpretation of Three-Dimensional Syntactic Trees" (Friederike Moltmann); "Two Kinds of Indexicality" (Geoffrey Nunberg); "The Semantics of Number in Arabic" (Almerindo E. Ojeda); "Distributivity and Logical Form in the Emergence of Universal Quantification" (William Philip); "On Telescoping" (Massimo Poesio, Alessandro Zucchi); "'Or' and Anaphora" (Matthew D. Stone); "Intervention Effects, Monotonicity and Scope" (Henriette de Swart); and "Weak Islands, Individuals, and Scope" (Anna Szabolcsi). (MSE)

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