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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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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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.