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Ling 370:
Fundamentals of Meaning

Readings

Bach, K. 1999. The semantics-pragmatics interface: What it is and why it matters. In Turner, K., editor, The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface from Different Points of View, volume 1 of Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface. Elsevier.

Carston, R. 1988. Implicature, explicature, and truth-theoretic semantics. In Kempson, R., editor, Mental Representations: The Interface between Language and Reality. Cambridge University Press.

Chierchia, G. and S. McConnell-Ginet. 1990. Meaning and Grammar. MIT Press.

Davis, S., editor. 1991. Pragmatics: A Reader. Oxford University Press.

Dowty, D. 1979. Word Meaning and Montague Grammar. Kluwer.

Fillmore, C. 1970. The grammar of hitting and breaking. In Jacobs, R. and P. Rosenbaum, editors, Readings in English Transformational Grammar, pages 120-133. Georgetown University Press.

Gamut, L. T. F. 1991. Introduction to Logic, volume 1 of Logic, Language, and Meaning. The University of Chicago Press.

Green, G. 1996. Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding. Lawrence Erlbaum.

Grice, H. P. 1989. Logic of Conversation. In Studies in the Way of Words, pages 23-40. Harvard University Press.

Heim, I. 1988. On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions. In Flickinger et al., editors, Proceedings of the Second West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), pages 114-125.

Hirschberg, J. 1991. A Theory of Scalar Implicature. Garland.

Horn, L. To appear. Implicature. In Horn, L. and G. Ward, editors, Handbook of Pragmatics. Basil Blackwell.

Jackendoff, R. S. 1972. Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar. MIT Press.

Karttunen, L. 1971. Implicative verbs. Language 47(2):340-358.

Karttunen, L. 1973. Presuppositions of compound sentences. Linguistic Inquiry 4:169-193.

Kempson, R., editor. 1988. Mental Representations: The Interface between Language and Reality. Cambridge University Press.

Kiparsky, P. and C. Kiparsky. 1970. Fact. In Bierwisch, M. and K. Heidolph, editors, Progress in Linguistics, pages 143-173. Mouton. Reprinted in Napoli and Rando (1979), pages 327-368.

Lewis, D. 1979. Scorekeeping in a language game. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 8: 339-359.

Lyons, J. 1977. Semantics, volume 1. Cambridge University Press.

Matsumoto, Y. 1995. The conversational condition on Horn scales. Linguistics and Philosophy, 18:21-60.

Napoli, D. J. and E. Rando, editor. 1979. Syntactic Argumentation. Georgetown University Press.

Searle, J. 1965. What is a speech act? In Searle, J., editor, The Philosophy of Language, pages 23-38. Oxford University Press. Reprinted in Davis (1991), pages 254-264.

Searle, J. 1975. Indirect speech acts. In Cole, P. and J. L. Morgan, editors, Speech Acts, volume 3 of Syntax and Semantics, pages 59-82. Academic Press. Reprinted in Davis (1991), pages 265-277.

Stalnaker, R. 1974. Pragmatic presuppositions. In Munitz, M. and P. Unger, editors, Semantics and Philosophy, pages 197-214. New York University Press.

Stalnaker, R. 1979. Assertion. In Cole, P., editor, Pragmatics, volume 9 of Syntax and Semantics, pages 315-322.

Stanley, J. 2000. Context and logical form. Lingusitics and Philosophy, 23:391-434.

Tarski, A. 1944. The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 4:341-375.

Vendler, Z. 1957. Verbs and times. The Philosophical Review, 66:143-160.

Veltman, F. 1976. Prejudices, presuppositions and the theory of counterfactuals. In Groenendijk, J. and M. Stokhof, editors, Proceedings of the First Amsterdam Colloquium [=Amsterdam Papers in Formal Grammar, Vol. 1], pages 248-281. Universiteit van Amsterdam.


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