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| Note: This schedule is subject to change, but not without notice. Any changes will be announced in class and reflected on these pages. Be sure to check regularly. |
| Dates | Topics | Readings | |
| Aug 27 |
Overview Linguistic phenomena Some modal logic |
Gamut (1990, vol. 2, Ch. 2) Kaufmann et al. (2006, Sec. 1,2) Kratzer (2012, Ch. 1) |
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| Sep 3, 10, 17 |
Classics: Stalnaker, Lewis, Kratzer Premise Semantics and Ordering Semantics Similarity Modal bases and ordering sources Restrictor analysis of conditionals |
Stalnaker (1968) Lewis (1973, Ch. 1) Kratzer (2012, Ch. 2, 3) Kratzer (2012, Ch. 1, 4) Lewis (1975, 1981) |
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| 2-3 weeks |
Counterfactuals and causality Time and causality Counterfactual/causal asymmetries Backtracking |
Kaufmann (2013) Lewis (1979) Pearl (2000, Ch. 1) Rips and Edwards (2013) Briggs (2012) Dehghani et al. (2012) Gopnik and Schulz (2007) Kanazawa et al. (2005) Kratzer (2012, Ch. 5, 6) Pearl (2000, Ch. 7) Rips (2009) Sloman and Lagnado (2005) Schulz (2011) Veltman (2005) Woodward (2007) |
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| 2-3 weeks | Linguistic expressions of causality |
Neeleman and van de Koot (2010) Wolff (2003, 2007) Wolff and Song (2003) Pylkkänen (2000) Ramchand (2008) |
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| 2-3 weeks |
Tense and Aspect "Fake past" in counterfactuals "Fake present" in indicatives |
Grønn and von Stechow (2011) Iatridou (2001) Ippolito (2013) Kaufmann (2005, 2009) Schulz (2008, 2014) Condoravdi (2002) |
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| 1-2 weeks |
Anankastic conditionals |
Condoravdi and Lauer (2014a,b) von Fintel and Iatridou (2005) Huitink (2005) Sæbø (2001) von Stechow et al. (2005, 2006) |
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| 1-2 weeks | Unconditionals |
Rawlins (2013) Gawron (2001) Rawlins (2008) Zaefferer (1990, 1991) |
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