Linguist 230B: Advanced semantics and pragmatics

Meetings	TuTh 9:00-10:30 am
Location:	240-110
Instructor:	Christopher Potts

Office hours:	Tue 11:00-12:00, Fri 2:00-3:30 & by appointment
Office:	460-101

5	Foundations of formal semantics PTQ	Assignment 1 [due Apr 10]
	Plan	Assignment	Reading
Apr 3	Foundations of formal semantics PTQ	Assignment 1 [due Apr 10]	Montague 1973: The proper treatment of quantification in ordinary English; Optional: Lewis 1970: General semantics
10	Quantification and scope Fragment 1 Quantifier scope	Assignment 2 [due Apr 17]	Szabolcsi 2009: Quantification, §2; Optional: Reinhart 1997: Quantifier scope: how labor is divided between QR and choice functions, §1
12	Quantification and scope Fragment 1 Quantifier scope	Assignment 2 [due Apr 17]
17	Type-shifting NP type-shifting	Assignment 3 [due Apr 24]	Partee 1987: Noun phrase interpretation and type-shifting principles Optional: Jacobson 1999: Towards a variable-free semantics
19	Type-shifting NP type-shifting	Assignment 3 [due Apr 24]
24	Modality Fragment 2 Modal bases and ordering sources	Assignment 4 [due May 8]	Kratzer 1981: The notional category of modality
26	Modality Fragment 2 Modal bases and ordering sources		Kratzer 1981: The notional category of modality
May 1	No class; Chris in Philadelphia		Szabó 2010: Specific, yet opaque; Optional: Lewis 1979: Attitudes de dicto and de se
3	Scope and intensionality Transparent and opaque, specific and non-specific
8	Interrogatives Interrogative semantics A note on rule (33) of Karttunen 1977	Assignment 5 [due May 15]	Karttunen 1977: Syntax and semantics of questions; Optional: Ginzburg 1996: Interrogatives: questions, facts, and dialogue
10		Assignment 5 [due May 15]
15		Assignment 6 [due May 22]
17	Intonational meaning Topic and focus	Assignment 6 [due May 22]	Büring 2007: Semantics, intonation, and information structure; Optional: Krifka 2001: For a structured meaning account of questions and answers
22	Dynamic semantics The game of interrogation Abridged Karttunen 1973 Presupposition projection with partial functions Predicate logic with anaphora Introduction to File Change Semantics	Assignment 7 [due May 29]
24		Assignment 7 [due May 29]	Groenendijk 1999: The logic of interrogation; Heim 1983: File change semantics and the familiarity theory of definiteness
29		Final projects due June 13, 3:15 pm
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Jun 5	Wrap-up Closing puzzle: Indefinites in Maori		Optional: Chung & Ladusaw 2004, §2: Indefinites in Maori

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