| Date | Topic | Presenter | |
| Aug 20 | Organizational meeting and ground rules | All | |
| Aug 17 | Sauerland 2003: A new semantics for number; Background: Schlenker 2012: Maximize Presupposition and Gricean Reasoning | Ryan Walter Smith | |
| Sep 3 | Zweig 2009: Number-neutral bare plurals and the multiplicity inference
Handout: Zweig 2009 handout |
Ryan Walter Smith | |
| Sep 10 | SuB practice talks | Ryan Walter Smith and William Thomas | |
| Sep 17 | No meeting (Ryan and William away) | ||
| Sep 24 | No meeting | ||
| Oct 1 | Beaver & Stanley (2023) The Politics of Language, Ch. 5 (Ch. 1 as background, Ch. 4 optional) |
William Thomas | |
| Oct 8 | Beaver & Stanley (2023), Ch. 10; McCready & Davis 2017 |
Everyone | |
| Oct 15 | Nowak (2024): Sociolinguistic variation, slurs, and speech act | Everyone | |
| Oct 22 | Burnett (2019): Signalling games, sociolinguistic variation and the construction of style | Everyone | |
| Oct 29 | Burnett (2020): A persona-based semantics for slurs | Everyone | |
| Nov 5 | No meeting (Election Day) | ||
| Nov 12 | Bonami & Burnett (2019): A Conceptual Spaces Model of Socially-motivated Language Change | Everyone | |
| Nov 19 | Scope, monotonicity and maximal informativity cannot be underestimated! A compositional analysis of an apparent linguistic illusion | Ryan Walter Smith | |
| Nov 26 | No meeting | ||
| Dec 3 | Dissertation project presentation | William Thomas |