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| Jan 9 |
- Overview of topics [screencast]
- Screencast: Entailment [slides]
- Interpreting proper names [screencast]
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- Assignment 1 [due Jan 23; tex]
- Quiz 1 [due Jan 23]
- Quiz 2 [due Jan 23]
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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 11 |
| Jan 16 |
- Screencast: Perspectives on meaning and interpretation
- Compositionality [screencast]
- Adjectives and semantic composition [screencast; slides]
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- Partee 1995, p. 316-330
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| Jan 18 |
| Jan 23 |
- Compounds and the limits of compositionality
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- Assignment 2 [due Jan 30; tex]
- Quiz 3 [due Jan 30]
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- Levin et al. 2019
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| Jan 25 |
| Jan 30 |
- Semantic composition
- Screencast: Composition, part 1
- Screencast: Composition, part 2
- Screencast: Composition, part 3
- Screencast: Composition, part 4
- Semantic grammar in Python
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- Assignment 3 [due Feb 6; tex]
- Quiz 4 [due Feb 6]
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| Feb 1 |
| Feb 6 |
- 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 13; tex]
- Quiz 5 [due Feb 13]
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- Keenan 1996
- Optional: von Fintel and Matthewson 2008, §3
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| Feb 8 |
| Feb 13 |
- Introduction to pragmatics
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- Midterm exam [due Feb 20; tex]
- Guidance on final projects
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| Feb 15 |
| Feb 20 |
- Conversational implicature
- Reference game results and analysis
- More reference game results and analysis
- Optional: The Rational Speech Acts model
- Optional: Screencast: The Rational Speech Acts model
- Optional: RSA implementation in Python
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- Assignment 5 [due Feb 27; tex]
- Quiz 6 [due Feb 27]
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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 22 |
| Feb 27 |
- Presupposition
- Diagnosing different kinds of meaning
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- Assignment 6 [due Mar 5; tex]
- Quiz 7 [due Mar 5]
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- Degen & Tanenhaus 2015, p. 667-684
- Optional: Simons 2006, §1-3
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| Feb 29 |
| Mar 5 |
- Vagueness and context dependence
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- Assignment 7 [due Mar 12; tex]
- Quiz 8 [due Mar 12]
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- Syrett et al. 2009, §2
- Optional: remaining sections of Syrett et al. 2009
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| Mar 7 |
| Mar 12 |
- Speech acts
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- Final exam [tex] distributed Mar 12 and due Mar 21, 6:30 pm
- Final projects due Mar 21, 6:30 pm
- All late work must be turned in by Mar 21, 6:30 pm, as well
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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 14 |
- Swearing
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- Optional: Podcast: The Allusionist 4: Denotating the C-bomb
- Optional: Podcast: Every Little Thing: F-ck yeah: Can cursing make you stronger?
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