Readings

Readings should be completed before each session.

SES # TOPICS READINGS
1 Introduction and preview  
2 Semantics 1: possible world semantics for attitudes von Fintel, Kai, and Irene Heim. Lecture Notes on Intensional Semantics. Chapters 1 and 2. (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
3 Semantics 2: presupposition and sequence of tense

von Fintel, Kai, and Irene Heim. Lecture Notes on Intensional Semantics. Chapters 1 and 2. (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)

Buy at Amazon Heim, Irene, and Angelika Kratzer. "Truth-Conditional Semantics and the Fregean Program," "Executing the Fregean Program," and "Semantics and Syntax." Chapters 1 to 3 in Semantics in Generative Grammar. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1998, pp. 1-32. ISBN: 9780631197133.

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Semantics 3: self-locating attitudes and logophors

Student presentations 1

Karttunen, Lauri. "Implicative Verbs." Language 47, no. 2 (June 1971): 340-358.

— — —. Some Observations on Factivity. Papers in Linguistics 4, no. 1 (1971): 55-69.

5 Semantics 3: self-locating attitudes and logophors (cont.)  
6 Syntax 1: CP structure and embedded clauses

Buy at Amazon Morgan, Jerry. "On the Criterion of Identity for Noun Phrase Deletion." In Papers from the Sixth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society, 1970, pp. 380-389. ISBN: 9780914203018.

Lewis, David. "Attitudes De Dicto and De Se." Philosophical Review 88, no. 4 (October 1979): 513-543.

Recommended

Perry, John. "Frege on Demonstratives." Philosophical Review 86, no. 4 (October 1977): 474-497.

— — —. "The Problem of the Essential Indexical." Noûs 13, no. 1 (March 1979): 3-21.

Buy at Amazon Chierchia, Gennaro. "Anaphora and Attitudes De Se." In Semantics and Contextual Expression. Edited by Renate Bartsch, Jan F. A. K. van Benthem, and P. van Emde Boas. Providence, RI: Foris Publications, 1990, pp. 1-32. ISBN: 9789067654432.

7 Syntax 2: control and raising Buy at Amazon Carnie, Andrew. "NP/DP Movement," and "Raising, Control, and Empty Categories." Chapters 9 and 10 in Syntax: A Generative Introduction. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. ISBN: 9780631225430.
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Pragmatics 1: evidentials and expressive meaning

Student presentations 2

Buy at Amazon Henry, Alison. "Introduction," and "For To Infinitives." Chapters 1 and 4 in Belfast English and Standard English: Dialect Variation and Parameter Setting. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 3-15 and 81-104. ISBN: 9780195082920.
9 Pragmatics 2: conversation and common ground, context set, assertion, presupposition, and applications

Stalnaker, Robert. "Pragmatics." Synthese 22, nos. 1-2 (December 1970): 272-289.

— — —. "Presuppositions." Journal of Philosophical Logic 2 (1973): 447-457.

— — —. "Pragmatic Presuppositions." In Semantics and Philosophy. Edited by Milton Munitz and Peter Under. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1974. Buy at Amazon ISBN: 9780814753668. Reprinted in Context and Content: Essays on Intentionality in Speech and Thought. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 47-62. Buy at Amazon ISBN: 9780198237075.

— — —. "Common Ground." Linguistics and Philosophy 25, nos. 5-6 (December 2002): 701-721.

10 Pragmatics 2: conversation and common ground and presupposition (cont.) Karttunen, Lauri. "Presuppositions of Compound Sentences." Linguistic Inquiry 4, no. 2 (1973): 169-193.

Stalnaker, Robert. "Pragmatic Presuppositions." In Semantics and Philosophy. Edited by Milton Munitz and Peter Under. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1974. Buy at Amazon ISBN: 9780814753668. Reprinted in Context and Content: Essays on Intentionality in Speech and Thought. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 47-62. Buy at Amazon ISBN: 9780198237075.

11 Pragmatics 2: presupposition and embedding verbs (cont.)

Stalnaker, Robert. "Pragmatic Presuppositions." In Semantics and Philosophy. Edited by Milton Munitz and Peter Under. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1974. Buy at Amazon ISBN: 9780814753668. Reprinted in Context and Content: Essays on Intentionality in Speech and Thought. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 47-62. Buy at Amazon ISBN: 9780198237075.

Simons, Mandy. "Observations on Embedding Verbs, Evidentiality, and Presupposition." Lingua 117, no. 6 (June 2007): 1034-1056.

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