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Schedule

Fall 2022

QUD: Questions in Discourse

Monday, October 3, 2022
Farkas & Bruce (2010): On Reacting to Assertions and Polar Questions

Monday, September 26, 2022:
Planning Meeting

Annals

QUD: Mood

Thursday, June 7, 2019
Özyıldız (2017): Attitude reports with and without true belief

Thursday, May 30, 2019
Bittner (2005): Future discourse in a tenseless language

Thursday, May 2, 2019
Silk (2018): Commitment and states of mind with mood and modality

Thursday, April 18, 2019
Portner (2018): Mood (Chapter 2)
Portner & Rubenstein (2012): Mood and contextual commitment

Thursday, April 11, 2019
Portner (2018): Mood (Chapter 1)

QUD: Deixis

Wednesday, November 14th 2018:
Davidson (2015): Question, demonstration, and iconicity

Wednesday, November 7th 2018:
Deal (2017): Shifty asymmetries: universals and variation in shifty indexicality (Sections 5-end)

Wednesday, October 31st 2018:
Deal (2017): Shifty asymmetries: universals and variation in shifty indexicality (Sections 1-4)

Wednesday, October 17th 2018:
Speas (1999): Person in Point of View in Navajo Direct Discourse Complements
Anand & Nevins (2004): Shifty Operators in Changing Contexts

Wednesday, October 10th 2018:
Levinson (2008): Deixis (Handbook of Pragmatics, Chapter 5)

QUD: Discourse Particles/Emotivity

Tuesday, May 29th 2018:
Rett (2011): Exclamatives, degrees, and speech acts

Tuesday, May 22nd 2018:
Zanuttini & Portner (2003): Exclamative clauses: At the syntax-semantics interface

Tuesday, May 15th 2018:
Beltrama (2018): Totally Between Subjectivity and Discourse: Exploring the Pragmatic Side of Intensification

Tuesday, May 8th 2018:
Kraus (2018): Great Intonations

Tuesday, May 1st 2018:
AnderBois (2018): Illocutionary Revelations: Yucatec Maya Bakaan and the Typology of Miratives

Tuesday, April 24th 2018:
Rett (2017): The semantics of emotive markers and other illocutionary content

QUD: Presuppositions

Monday, March 5th 2018:
Cummins et al. (2013): Backgrounding and Accommodation of Presuppositions: An Experimental Approach

Monday, February 26th 2018:
Jayez et al. (2015): Weak and Strong Triggers

Monday, February 12th 2018:
Schwarz & Tiemann (2017): Presupposition Projection in Online Processing

Monday, January 29th 2018:
van der Sandt (1992): Presupposition Projection as Anaphora Resolution

Monday, January 22nd 2018:
Kadmon (2001): Formal Pragmatics, Chapters 5 & 9

QUD: Embedded Questions

Wednesday, December 6th 2017:
Mayr (2017): Predicting Polar Question Embedding

Wednesday, November 15th 2017:
Uegaki (2015): Interpreting Questions under Attitudes

Special Day and Special Guest! Monday, November 6th 2017:
Jérémy Pasquereau on Asymmetry between responses to questions and responses to assertions: the view from French embedded yes/no particles

Wednesday, November 1st 2017:
Aloni (2005): A Formal Treatment of the Pragmatics of Questions and Attitudes

Wednesday, October 25th 2017:
George (2011): Question Embedding and the Semantics of Answers, Chapter 6

Wednesday, October 18th 2017:
Potts (2006): How far can Pragmatic Mechanisms Take Us?

Wednesday, October 11th 2017:
Partee (2009): Semantics and Pragmatics of Questions

QUD: The Pragmatics of Intonation

General Resource:
Here is a free MIT class with online resources for learning more about/practicing ToBI transcription.

Thursday, June 1st 2017:
Howell (2011): Second-Occurrence Focus and the Acoustics of Prominence

Thursday, May 25th 2017:
Beaver et al. (2007): When Semantics Meets Phonetics: Acoustical Studies of Second-Occurrence Focus

Thursday, May 18th 2017:
Jun and Bishop (2015): Priming Implicit Prosody: Prosodic Boundaries and Individual Differences

Thursday, May 4th 2017:
Mark Steedman (2003): Information-Structural Semantics for English Intonation

Thursday, April 27th 2017:
Noah Constant (2012): English rise-fall-rise: a study in the semantics and pragmatics of intonation

Thursday, April 20th 2017:
Ward & Hirschberg (1988): Intonation and Propositional Attitude.

Thursday, April 13th 2017:
Ladd (2008): Intonational Pragmatics, Chapter 3. Online sound files

Thursday, January 19th 2017:
Hirschberg (2006): Pragmatics and Intonation

Thursday, January 12th 2017:
Planning Meeting

QUD: Conditionals and Causal Inference

Wednesday, November 30th 2016:
Veltman (2005): Making counterfactual assumptions

Wednesday, November 16th 2016:
Francez (2015): Chimerical conditionals

Wednesday, November 9th 2016:
Ebert, Ebert & Hinterwimmer (2014): A unified analysis of conditionals as topics

Wednesday, November 2nd 2016:
Condoravdi & Lauer (2016): Anakastic conditionals are just conditionals

Wednesday, October 26th 2016:
Ogihara (2000): Counterfactuals, temporal adverbs, and association with focus

Wednesday, October 19th 2016:
Uegaki (2015): Content nouns and the semantics of question-embedding

Wednesday, October 12th 2016:
Isaacs & Rawlins (2008): Conditional questions

Wednesday, October 5th 2016:
Kratzer (1986): Conditionals

Wednesday, September 28th 2016:
Planning Meeting

QUD: Topics in Epistemic Modality
(Curated by Deniz Rudin)

Wednesday, May 25th 2016:
Papafragou (2006): Epistemic modality and truth conditions

Wednesday, May 18th 2016:
Bern Samko presents: 'Syntax & Information Structure: The Grammar of English Inversions'

Wednesday, May 11th 2016:
Lassiter (2016): Must, knowledge, and (in)directness

Wednesday, May 4th 2016:
von Fintel & Gillies (2010): Must... stay... strong!

Wednesday, April 27th 2016:
Moss (2015): On the semantics and pragmatics of epistemic vocabulary

Wednesday, April 20th 2016:
Stone (1994): The reference argument of epistemic must

Wednesday, April 13th 2016:
Anand & Brasoveanu (2009): Modal concord as modal modification

Wednesday, April 6th 2016:
Karttunen (1972): Possible and must

Wednesday, March 29th 2016:
Planning Meeting

QUD: Evidentiality
(Curated by Ben Mericli)

Tuesday, March 8th 2016:
Northrup (2014): Grounds for commitment
Chapter 2: An evidential model of discourse

Tuesday, March 1st 2016:
Speas (2004): Evidentiality, logophoricity and the syntactic representation of pragmatic features

Tuesday, February 23th 2016:
Faller (2011): A possible worlds semantics for Cuzco Quechua evidentials

Tuesday, February 16th 2016:
Peterson (2013): Rethinking mirativity

Tuesday, February 9th 2016:
Davis, Potts & Speas (2007): The pragmatic values of evidential sentences

Tuesday, February 2nd 2016:
Harris & Potts (2009): Perspective-shifting with appositives and expressives

Tuesday, January 26th 2016:
AnderBois (2014): On the exceptional status of reportative evidentials

Tuesday, January 19th 2016:
Izvorski (1997): The present perfect as an epistemic modal

Tuesday, January 12th 2016:
Higginbotham (2009): Evidentials: Some basic distinctions
(with supplementary data provided by Ben Mericli)

Tuesday, January 5th 2016:
Planning Meeting

QUD: Licensing Implicatures

Thursday, December 3rd 2015:
Sauerland (2004): Scalar implicatures in complex sentences

Thursday, November 19th 2015:
Phil Crone presents: 'Assertions of clarity & awareness'

Thursday, November 12th 2015:
Katzier (2007): Structurally-defined alternatives

QUD: Semantics, Pragmatics and Processing

Thursday, November 5th 2015:
Rohde, Levy & Kehler (2011): Anticipating explanations in relative clause processing

Thursday, October 29th 2015:
Degen & Tanenhaus (2014): Processing scalar implicature: A constraint-based approach

Thursday, October 22nd 2015:
Potts, Lassiter, Levy & Frank (2015): Embedded implicatures as pragmatic inferences under compositional lexical uncertainty

Thursday, October 15th 2015:
Hobbs (1979): Coherence and coreference

Thursday, October 8th 2015:
Goodman & Lassiter (2013): Probabilistic semantics and pragmatics: Uncertainty in language and thought

Thursday, October 1st 2015:
Kehler & Rohde (2013): A probabilistic reconciliation of coherence-driven and centering-driven theories of pronoun interpretation

Thursday, September 24th 2015:
Planning Meeting

QUD: Information Structure
(Curated by Bern Samko)

Tuesday, June 2nd 2015:
Information structure in the wild: NYT corpus data workshop with Bern Samko

Tuesday, May 26th 2015:
Ward & Birner (2001): Discourse and Information Structure

Tuesday, May 19th 2015:
Prince (1981): Topicalization, Focus-Movement, and Yiddish-Movement: A pragmatic differentiation

Tuesday, May 12th 2015:
Constant (2014): Contrastive topic: Meanings and realizations
Chapter 4: CT-marked quantifiers

Tuesday, May 5th 2015:
Ebert & Endriss (2007): Functional Topics

Tuesday, April 28th 2015:
Kuroda (2005): Focusing on the matter of topic: A study of wa and ga in Japanese

Tuesday, April 21st 2015:
Vallduvi & Engdahl (1996): The linguistic realisation of information packaging

Tuesday, April 14th 2015:
Portner & Yabushita (1998): The semantics and pragmatics of topic phrases

Tuesday, April 7th 2015:
Reinhart (1981): Pragmatics and linguistics: An analysis of sentence topics
Supplemental: Vallduvi (2014): Information structure

Tuesday, March 31st 2015:
Planning Meeting

QUD: Cancelability

Monday, March 9th 2015:
Stalnaker (1973): Presuppositions
Stalnaker (1998): On the representation of context

Monday, March 2nd 2015:
Pranav Anand presents: 'Being right about veracity'

Thursday, February 19 2015:
Abrusan (2011): Predicting the presuppositions of soft triggers

Monday, February 9th 2015:
Simons, Roberts, Tonhauser & Beaver (2014): The best question: explaining the projection behavior of factives

Monday, February 2nd 2015:
Lauer (2013): Towards a dynamic pragmatics
Chapter 9: Conversational implicatures

Monday, January 26th 2015:
Lauer (2013): Towards a dynamic pragmatics
Chapter 2: The basic system

Thursday, January 22nd 2015:
Bade (2014): Obligatory implicatures and the presupposition of "too"

Thursday, January 14th 2015:
Westera & Brasoveanu (2014): Ignorance in context: The interaction of modified numerals and QUDs

Monday, January 5th 2015:
Planning meeting

QUD: Content externalism

Special bonus reading (not discussed as a group):
Lassiter (2008): Semantic externalism, language variation, and sociolinguistic accommodation

Monday, December 8th 2014:
Burge (2003): Psychology and the environment

Monday, December 1st 2014:
Chomsky (2000): Internalist explorations

Monday, November 24th 2014:
Putnam (1973): Meaning and reference

QUD: Vagueness

Monday, November 17th 2014:
Williamson (1992): Vagueness and ignorance
Williamson (1997): Imagination, stipulation and vagueness

Monday, November 10th 2014:
Review/stocktaking

Monday, November 3rd 2014:
Kamp (1975): Two theories about adjectives

Monday, October 27th 2014:
Kennedy (2007): Vagueness and grammar

Monday, October 20th 2014:
Cobreros, Egre, Ripley & van Rooij (2010): Tolerant, classical, strict

Monday, October 13th 2014:
van Rooij (2011): Vagueness in linguistics

Monday, October 6th 2014:
Planning meeting