Acknowledgments

SALT 13 was made possible by the financial support of the Graduate School, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Linguistics, Dept. of Germanics, Dept. of Philosophy, and Dept. of Computer Science at University of Washington. We hereby gratefully acknowledge their generous support.

We received 112 abstracts this year, and 15 papers were selected along with three alternates. We had the good fortune of being able to rely on the 65 reviewers, who gave us detailed written comments in addition to numerical scores. The printout of the written comments amounted to more than 100 single-spaced pages. Their comments were extremely helpful in the final stage of the selection process. We gratefully acknowledge the contribution of the following dedicated semanticists:

Barbara Abbott, Dorit Abush, Kent Bach, Chris Barker, David Beaver, Sigrid Beck, Maria Bittner, Daniel Büring, Greg Carlson, Cleo Condoravdi, Veneeta Dayal, Paul Dekker, Molly Diesing, Donka Farkas, Hana Filip, Kai von Fintel, Danny Fox, Jean Mark Gawron, Veerle Van Geenhoven, Bart Geurts, Anastasia Giannakidou, Jeroen Groenendijk, Irene Heim, Elena Herburger, James Higginbotham, Pauline Jacobson, Gerhard Jaeger, Nirit Kadmon, Makoto Kanazawa, Jeff Kaplan, Andrew Kehler, Chris Kennedy, Angelika Kratzer, Manfred Krifka, Bill Ladusaw, Utpal Lahiri, Peter Lasersohn, Beth Levin, Lisa Matthewson, William McClure, Sally McConnell-Ginet, Louise McNally, Renate Musan, Almerindo Ojeda, Barbara Partee, Jeff Pelletier, Chris Piñon, Paul Portner, Craige Roberts, Maribel Romero, Hotze Rullman, Uli Sauerland, Philippe Schlenker, Roger Schwarzschild, Yael Sharvit, Arnim von Stechow, Mark Steedman, Martin Stokhof, Tim Stowell, Henrietta de Swart, Satoshi Tomioka, Gregory Ward, Yoad Winter, Ede Zimmermann, and Sandro Zucchi.

We also appreciate the help provided by the department's administrator Kathryn Speranza. Other faculty members and graduate students helped us in many different ways. In particular, we thank Fritz Newmeyer (not only for providing his house for the party on Friday and for being its host but also for being a good advisor), Karen Zagona (for making many crucial suggestions at various stages of conference preparation) Julia Herschensohn (for being supportive throughout the ﾅgprojectﾅh), and Chia-Hui Huang (for providing us with a wealth of practical skills needed for running a conference and simply for being available and encouraging us in many ways). During the last stage of the conference preparation, many graduate students provided us with a lot of volunteer support. We would like to thank them all. Lastly, we would like to thank previous SALT organizers, in particular Anna Szabolcsi and Chris Barker, who provided many suggestions that would not have been available anywhere else.

SALT 13 Organizing Committee

Toshiyuki Ogihara, Duane L. Blanchard, Richard DiPrima, Aixa Heller, and Laurel Preston