Reading Response #2: Geurts (2010), Chap. 2 (due M 10/1)
Your second reading response assignment (as well as some background information regarding the Geurts chapter) can be downloaded here: Reading Response: Geurts 2010, Chap. 2
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Reading for M 10/1: Grice 1975; Geurts 2010, Chap. 2
For M 10/1, please complete the following two readings, which may both be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. 1. Grice, Paul. 1975. Logic and conversation. In Peter Cole and Jerry Morgan (eds.), Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 3: Speech Acts, 41-58. New York: Academic Press. (Reprinted in Grice 1989, Studies in the Way of Words, 22-40.) 2. Geurts, …
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HW1 (due M 9/24 @ beg. of class)
Your first homework assignment is now available for download–just click on the link below for a PDF version. It will be due on Monday, September 24, at the beginning of class. HW1 (due M 9/24 @ beg. of class)
Reading for M 9/24: Karttunen 1976; Haviland & Clark 1974
For M 9/24, please read the following two articles, which may both be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. 1. Karttunen, Lauri. 1976. Discourse referents. In James D. McCawley (ed.), Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 7: Notes from the Linguistic Underground, 363-385. New York: Academic Press. 2. Haviland, Susan & Herbert Clark. 1974. What’s new? Acquiring new information …
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Group Presentations: Papers now posted; Preferences requested by Saturday, 9/15
As I said during our first class meeting, each of you will participate in a group presentation at some point during the semester, during which you and the other members of your group will be responsible for summarizing and discussing one of the week’s readings. There will be five group presentations in total, each devoted …
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Reading Response #1: Partee (1989) (due M 9/17)
Your first reading response assignment (as well as some valuable background information regarding the Partee paper) can be downloaded here: Reading Response: Partee (1989)
Reading for M 9/17: Huang 2007, Ch. 5 & Partee 1989: §1-4
For M 9/17, please read the following two items, which may both be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. (Note: the “Readings” section is password-protected; you can find the password on the first page of your printed syllabus.) 1. Huang, Yan. 2007. Pragmatics, Chap. 5 (‘Deixis’). (Note that §5.3 of the Huang chapter is …
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Reading for M 9/10: Potts (2007) on semantics and pragmatics
For M 9/10 (our first class meeting), please read the following brief overview of semantics and pragmatics: Potts, Christopher. 2007. Semantics-pragmatics interaction. Available at: http://www.stanford.edu/~cgpotts/entries/potts-cup-semantics-pragmatics.html.