Current Schedule

Date Topic Presenter
Jan 10 Organizational meeting All
Jan 17 Horn 1984 (skim Grice 1975 as background)
Notes: Notes-Horn84
Prerna
Jan 24 Levinson 1995 (continuing the discussion on Neo-Gricean approaches) Ash
Jan 31 Lauer 2013 (Chs 1-2, 5 as background, focus on Ch 9)
Notes on 1,2,5: Notes-Lauer-1
Extended notes: Notes-Lauer-2
Prerna
Feb 7 Lauer 2013 continued
Notes (prepared by Jinwei): Lauer 2013 Ch9
Jinwei
Feb 14 Probabilistic question-based approach to additives William
Feb 21 Meeting cancelled
Feb 28 Additives continued, Degen 2023 (Review of Rational Speech Acts framework) William
Mar 6 Speech acts: Harris et al 2018
Notes (prepared by Tomiris): Speech Acts Mar 2024
Tomiris
Mar 13 No meeting; Spring Break
Mar 20 Understanding ghostly negation Jinwei
Mar 27 1. Understanding ghostly negation (continued)
2. Informativeness of final-le in Mandarin Chinese: an antipresuppositional account
1. Jinwei
2. Qianping
Apr 3 No meeting
Apr 10
Apr 17 (tentative) Get causatives (CLS dry run) Prerna

 

Previous schedules
SP 2023
AU 2023