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Formal Semantics and Formal Pragmatics Barbara H Partee MGU 2009
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Course Materials for Formal Semantics and Formal Pragmatics --
Schedule, Handouts, Readings, Assignments

WEEK	TOPIC	HANDOUTS AND READINGS	ASSIGNMENTS
Week 1 Feb 20	Intro to Formal Semantics - 1	Handout [1-up] [2-up] Seminar handout: a sample exercise Readings: Larson (1995) "Semantics" Partee (1999) "Semantics" Partee (in press) "Formal semantics"	Homework #0: Anketa Due Week 2
Week 2 Feb 27	Intro to Formal Semantics - 2	Handout [1-up] [2-up] Readings: no new ones	Homework #1: Lambdas Due Week 4
Week 3 Mar 6	Intro to Formal Semantics - 3	Handout [1-up] [2-up] Readings: See suggestions for readings for Week 3 and the two weeks without lectures in Links to Readings 2009.
	No class March 13 or March 20!
Week 4 Mar 27	Intro to Pragmatics	Handout [1-up] [2-up] Readings: Gamut (1991) Ch. 6 "Pragmatics" Grice (1975) Logic and conversation Kadmon (2001) Ch. 1 Potts (to appear) Conventional implicatures	HW #1 due! (Ask BHP for a copy of answers to HW #1. )
Week 5 Apr 3	Dynamics & Context-Change - 1	Handout [1-up] [2-up] Readings: Heim, Irene. 1983. File change semantics and the familiarity theory of definiteness. Lewis, David. 1979. Scorekeeping in a language game. Stalnaker, R. 1978. Assertion.	Homework #2: Dynamics (See Week 5 handout) Due Week 7
Week 6 Apr 10	Dynamic & Context-Change -2	Handout [1-up] [2-up] Readings: Heim dissertation (on CD), esp. Ch II and part of Ch III. Kamp (1981) (also on CD)
Week 7 Apr 17	Expressives	Handout [1-up] [2-up] Appendix: [1-p] [2-up] Readings: Potts (2007) The expressive dimension. Bylinina (2008) Depreciative indefinites.	Homework #3: Project proposal: 1 page plus bibliography Due Week 8
Week 8 Apr 24	Conventional Implicature	Handout [1-up] [2-up ] Readings: Potts (2005) The Logic of Conventional Implicatures. (On your CD) Potts (2007) Conventional implicatures, a distinguished class of meanings Horn (2004) Implicature.
Week 9 Thurs Apr 30! 18:00!	Presuppositions	Handout [1-up] [2-up ] Readings: Kadmon (2001), Chs. 5-11 (on CD) Heim (1983) On the projection problem for presuppositions Heim (1990) Presupposition projection
Week 10 May 8	STUDENT PRESENTATIONS	PROGRAM STUDENT PAPERS	Homework #4: Presentation with Handout
Week 11 May 15	Focus sensitivity - semantics and pragmatics More presentations	Handout [1-up] [2-up] Readings: Rooth (1995) Focus Roberts(1996) Information structure Kadmon (2001), Ch. 21 (on CD)	Homework #5 Write-up of presentation Due 2 days before you want your ocenka or zachet
Week 12 May 22	Semantics and pragmatics of questions More presentations	Handout [1-up] [2-up] Readings: Roberts(1996) Information structure Groenendijk and Stokhof (1989) Type-shifting rules and the semantics of interrogatives Potts(2006) How far can pragmatic mechanisms take us?
	No class May 29!
Week 13 Jun 5	Implicit Variables and Point of View Class meets June 5 at 14:30! Seminar at 16:30 More presentations	Handout [1-up] [2-up] Readings: Partee (1989) Binding implicit variables in quantified contexts Lasersohn (2009) Relative truth, speaker commitment, and control of implicit arguments Condoravdi and Gawron (1996) The context-dependency of implicit arguments