Ling 370:
Fundamentals of Meaning

Schedule

Dates	Topics	Readings	HW
Sep 25 [Th]	Introduction What is meaning? Truth and truth conditions The semantics/pragmatics distinction	Bach (1999) Gamut (1991), Ch. 1 [Tarski (1944)]
Part I: Semantics (4 weeks)
Sep 30, Oct 2 [Tu, Th]	Sentential connectives Propositional logic Truth functions Relationships between sentences	Gamut (1991), Ch. 2
Oct 7, 9 [Tu, Th]	Quantification First-order logic Determiners Scope	Gamut (1991), Ch. 3
Oct 14, 16 [Tu, Th]	Argument structure Subcategorization Selectional restrictions Inventories of semantic roles	Fillmore (1970) Jackendoff (1972) [Dowty (1991)]
Oct 21, 23 [Tu, Th]	Event types Verb classes, diagnostics Aspectual composition	Vendler (1957) Dowty (1979)
First exam due on Oct 28!
Part II: Pragmatics (4 weeks)
Oct 28, 30 [Tu, Th]	Speech acts Felicity conditions Performative verbs Direct and indirect speech acts Locutionary, illocutionary, perlocutionary force	Green (1996), Ch. 4 Searle (1965) [Searle (1975)]
Nov 4, 6 [Tu, Th]	Presupposition Diagnostics Falsehood vs. infelicity Triggers and projection Accommodation	Kiparsky and Kiparsky (1970) Karttunen (1974) Stalnaker (1974) [Lewis (1979)]
Nov 11, 13 [Tu, Th]	Gricean pragmatics Gricean Maxims Conventional and conversational implicature General and particularized implicature Scalar implicature	Grice (1989) Matsumoto (1995) Horn (2003)
Nov 18, 20 [Tu, Th]	Explicature	Carston (1988) Stanley (2000)
Nov 25 [Tu]	Summary and Wrap-Up
Second Exam due on Nov 27!