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24.954 Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory, Fall 2002

Stylized drawing of head processing language.
Representation of language processing. (Image courtesy of National Institutes of Health.)

Highlights of this Course

This course includes extensive lecture notes, which are located in the lecture notes section.

Course Description

Formal theories of context-dependency, presupposition, implicature, context-change, focus and topic. Special emphasis on the division of labor between semantics and pragmatics. Applications to the analysis of quantification, definiteness, presupposition projection, conditionals and modality, anaphora, questions and answers.

 

Staff

Instructors:
Prof. Kai von Fintel
Prof. Danny Fox

Course Meeting Times

Lectures:
Two sessions / week
1.5 hours / session

Level

Graduate

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