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 |
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Apr 3 | No meeting | ||
Apr 10 | Beaver & Stanley (2023): Chapter 1 (Resonance) | All | |
Apr 17 | The semantics (pragmatics?) of frustration (frustrative particles in O’dam, collaboration with Michael Everdell, BU) |
Prerna |