No Office Hours on Friday, February 1
Please note that I will *not* be holding my regular office hours tomorrow (from 11:30am-1pm). Please direct any urgent inquiries to me via email, and I will respond to them as soon as I can.
Archive of entries posted on January 2013
HW2 (due Thurs. 2/7 @ beg. of class)
Your second homework assignment is now available for download–just click on the link below for a PDF version. It will be due on Thursday, February 7, at the beginning of class. HW2 (due Thursday 2/7 @ beg. of class)
Reading for Tu 2/5: Birner §2.2-2.3 (pgs. 62-73), skip §2.2.2 (pgs. 66-68)
For next Tuesday 2/5, please read sections 2.2 and 2.3 (pgs. 62-73) of the following book chapter, which is still available from the “Readings” section of this website: Birner, Betty. 2012. Introduction to Pragmatics, Chap. 2 (‘Gricean Implicature’). Malden, MA: Blackwell. Note: you should skip section 2.2.2 (pgs. 66-68) of the reading. This particular subsection deals …
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Handout on basic semantic notions, entailment
Here’s a handout which (i) summarizes some of the key concepts we’ve introduced in class so far, and (ii) summarizes our discussion of entailments, as well as our tests for identifying them. Since these tests do not appear anywhere in your readings, I thought that this would be a useful addition to your notes. You …
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HW1 (due 1/31 @ beg. of class)
Your very first homework assignment is now available for download–just click on the link below for a PDF version. It will be due on Thursday, January 31, at the beginning of class. HW1 (due Th 1/31 @ beg. of class)
Reading for Tu 1/29 & Th 1/31: Birner §2.1 (pgs. 40-62)
For next week, please read section 2.1 (pgs. 40-62) of the following book chapter, which can be downloaded (PDF) from the “Readings” section of this website: Birner, Betty. 2012. Introduction to Pragmatics, Chap. 2 (‘Gricean Implicature’). Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Readings for Tu 1/22 & Th 1/24: Kearns, Chap. 1; excerpt on entailment
For next week, please complete the following two readings: Chapter 1 of the Kearns textbook. The chapter provides an overview of the approach to linguistic meaning that we will adopt this semester. a short excerpt on entailment (from Chierchia & McConnell-Ginet’s textbook Meaning and Grammar) that I have posted at the “Readings” section of this website. …
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