| TA | Alex Djalali |
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| Office hours |
Tu 1:00-2:00 & Skype (alex.djalali)
by appointment |
| Office | 460-030A |
Grading team: Alex, Scott Grimm, Sven Lauer, and Chris
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| Jan 10 |
Overview of topics; Should you be taking 130c?; On reading Partee 1995 |
Assignment 1 [due Jan 24] |
Partee 1995, p. 311-330 |
| 12 |
Partee 1995: Towards a compositional theory |
| 17 |
Sentences, utterances, propositions; Truth conditions and compositionality; Results of the in-class study on the and salience; On reading Syrett et al. 2009 |
Partee 1995, p. 330-342; Syrett et al. 2009, §2; Optional: remaining sections of Syrett et al. 2009 |
| 19 |
| 24 |
Quantifiers; What does most mean; Supporting Gigaword data on most |
Assignment 2 [due Jan 31]; Extra credit 1 [close date Feb 7] |
Keenan 1996; Optional: von Fintel and Matthewson 2008, §3 |
| 26 |
| 31 |
Assignment 3 [due Feb 7] |
| Feb 2 |
Pragmatic enrichment: introduction by example; Gricean pragmatics; Ways of failing to live up to the maxims; Conversational implicature |
Grice 1975: Logic and conversation; Optional: E.O. Keenan 1979; Horn 1984 |
| 7 |
Mid-term exam distributed [due Feb 9]; Optional small final projects |
| 9 |
| 14 |
Assignment 4 [due Feb 21]; Extra credit 2 [close date Mar 6] |
Solan & Tiersma: pp. 23-26: Context; Solan & Tiersma: §4: Interrogation, confession, and the right to counsel; Optional: Karttunen 1973 |
| 16 |
Presupposition |
| 21 |
Assignment 5 [due Feb 28] |
Solan & Tiersma: §3: Consensual searches; Optional: Condoravdi and Lauer 2011 |
| 23 |
Speech-Act theory and performative utterances; Case study: solicitation |
| 28 |
Intonational meaning |
Assignment 6 [due Mar 6] |
Optional: Büring 1999 |
| Mar 1 |
| 6 |
The mass–count distinction: cognitive and linguistic approaches |
Assignment 7 [due Mar 13] |
Jay 2000: Why We Curse, §§3,5,10 |
| 8 |
Expressive language: cognitive, linguistic, and cultural factors |
| 13 |
The linguist on the witness stand; Debate: Is this perjury? |
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Solan & Tiersma: §11: Perjury; Optional: Solan & Tiersma 2002: The linguist on the witness stand |
| 15 |
Final exam distributed [due by the end of our scheduled exam time: 6:30 pm on Mar 19] |
[Stanford W12 academic calendar]
