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| Jan 7 |
- Overview of topics
- Screencast: Entailment
- The semantics of proper names
- Screencast: Proper names
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- Assignment 1 [due Jan 21; tex]
- Syllabus quiz [due Jan 21]
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- Partee 1995, p. 311-316
- Perspectives on meaning and interpretation
- Optional: Jackendoff 1996
- Optional: Lewis 1975
- Optional: Devitt and Sterelny 1995, §3–4
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| Jan 9 |
| Jan 14 |
- Compositionality
- Adjectives and semantic composition
- Screencast: Adjectives
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- Nefdt and Potts 2024
- Partee 1995, p. 316-330
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| Jan 16 |
| Jan 21 |
- Compounds and the limits of compositionality
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- Assignment 2 [due Jan 28; tex]
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- Levin et al. 2019
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| Jan 23 |
| Jan 28 |
- Semantic composition
- Semantic grammar in Python
- Screencast: Composition, part 1
- Screencast: Composition, part 2
- Screencast: Composition, part 3
- Screencast: Composition, part 4
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- Assignment 3 [due Feb 4; tex]
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| Jan 30 |
| Feb 4 |
- Quantifier properties
- Screencast: Quantifiers, part 1
- Screencast: Quantifiers, part 2
- Screencast: Quantifiers, part 3
- Screencast: Quantifiers, part 4
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- Assignment 4 [due Feb 11; tex]
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- Keenan 1996
- Optional: von Fintel and Matthewson 2008, §3
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| Feb 6 |
| Feb 11 |
- Introduction to pragmatics
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- Midterm exam [due Feb 18; tex]
- Guidance on final projects
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| Feb 13 |
| Feb 18 |
- Conversational implicature
- Reference game results and analysis
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- Assignment 5 [due Feb 25; tex]
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- Grice 1975
- E.O. Keenan 1979
- Optional: Goodman and Frank 2016
- Optional: Stiller et al. 2011
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| Feb 20 |
| Feb 25 |
- Presupposition
- Diagnosing different kinds of meaning
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- Assignment 6 [due Mar 4; tex]
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- Potts 2015 , p. 2-11
- Optional: Simons 2006
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| Feb 27 |
| Mar 4 |
- Vagueness and context dependence
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- Assignment 7 [due Mar 11; tex]
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- Solan and Tiersma 2005, §3: “Consensual searches”
- Solan and Tiersma 2005, §4: “Interrogation, confession, and the right to counsel”
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| Mar 6 |
- Speech acts
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| Mar 11 |
- Final exam [distributed Mar 11 and due Mar 20, 6:30 pm; tex]
- Final projects due Mar 20, 6:30 pm
- All late work must be turned in by Mar 20, 6:30 pm
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| Mar 13 |
- Swearing
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- Optional: Podcast: The Allusionist 4: Denotating the C-bomb
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