| Conversational Implicature |
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The Basics
Introduction, The Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction, Grice's Notion of Implicature |
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The Basics
Quantity Implicature |
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| 3 |
The Basics
Horn Scales |
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Case Study: Embedded Implicatures
Embedded Implicatures |
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Case Study: Embedded Implicatures
Implicature Projection |
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Case Study: Embedded Implicatures
Exhaustivity |
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| Indexicals |
| 7 |
The Basics
Indexicals, Kaplan's System |
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The Basics
Indexicals, Kaplan's System (cont.) |
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Case Studies: Referential NPs, Monsters, Assessment Relativity
Referential (In)Definites? |
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Case Studies: Referential NPs, Monsters, Assessment Relativity
Monsters? |
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Case Studies: Referential NPs, Monsters, Assessment Relativity
Assessment-Relativity? |
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| Presupposition |
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The Basics
Presuppositions and Presupposition Projection |
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The Basics
Presuppositions and Presupposition Projection (cont.) |
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| 14 |
The Basics
The Dynamic View |
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| 15 |
Case Study: Existential Import
Existential Import |
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| Speech Acts |
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The Basics
Speech Act Theory |
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| 17 |
The Basics
The Performative Hypothesis |
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| 18 |
Case Studies: Recent Work
Semantics above Speech Acts |
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| 19 |
Case Studies: Recent Work
Expressive Meanings |
A short squib proposal due on or before lecture 19 |
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Case Studies: Recent Work
Epistemic Modals in Speech Acts |
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| Focus |
| 21 |
The Basics
Topic, Focus, and Givenness |
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Case Study: Focus and Presupposition
Only, Presupposition, and Focus |
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| 23 |
Case Study: Focus and Presupposition
Taxonomy of Triggers |
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Case Study: Focus and Presupposition
Accommodation |
Squib due three days after lecture 24 |