Author: Ryan Bochnak
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SALT in Buenos Aires
This past July, I presented a poster at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 36 at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, with my co-author Ana Arrieta Zamudio. Our poster was titled “Challenges for a coercion approach to actuality entailments: Evidence from Ktunaxa.” We argue for a causal analysis of the ability modal in Ktunaxa, but…
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SULA/TripleA at UBC
We recently hosted the first ever joint meeting of SULA (Semantics of Under-represented Languages in the Americas) and TripleA (Semantics of Languages of Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania) at UBC in May 2026! We hosted approximately 100 participants, including 9 invited speakers, many research talks, a poster session, as well as a panel on Indigenous…
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Talks at Sinn und Bedeutung, Sicily
I recently gave three talks at Sinn und Bedeutung 29 in Sicily: Ana Laura Arrieta Zamudio & Ryan Bochnak: Conjectural questions in Ktunaxa as canonical questions (pre-conference workshop on Evidentials in Non-canonical Speech Acts) Ryan Bochnak: Underspecified coordination, focus and contrast in Wá∙šiw Ryan Bochnak, Adam Gobeski, Marcin Morzycki, Starr Sandoval: The Twofold Nature of Degree Nominalizations: Degree…
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New website
Welcome to my new website. I’m still in the process of adding things, so check back soon for more updates, links, etc.