Syllabus/First handout

Second handout

Third handout

Fourth handout

Handout on "Integrated pragmatic values"

Fifth (short) handout

Presupposition: Context Change Potentials and Accommodation (the gaps between the fifth handout and this one will be filled in soon)

Kent Bach, "The Top Ten Misconceptions about Implicature". (Assigned reading for 1/22)

Ray Jennings, "The Myth of Vel and Aut". (From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "Disjunction".)

Benjamin Russell, "Against Grammatical Computation of Scalar Implicatures" (esp. the very short Section 3, which concerns the status of Horn scales and the lexicon; the rest concerns whether scalar implicatures are pragmatic or "part of the grammar".)

Potts (2005), "Integrated Pragmatic Values" (on semanticsarchive.net)

Horn (1985), "Metalinguistic Negation..." (password required)

To read before Chris Potts's talk (Thursday, March 29):

• Conversational implicatures via general pragmatic pressures (2006). In Takashi Washio, Akito Sakurai, Katsuto Nakajima, Hideaki Takeda, Satoshi Tojo, and Makoto Yokoo, eds., Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence 2006, 205-218. Berlin: Springer.
• How far can pragmatic mechanisms take us? (2006) Theoretical Linguistics 32(3):307-320.

Note that these articles are both part of the same framework as the 2005 Potts article linked above. So at least partly this will be review. The latter paper includes commentary on a paper by Hubert Truckenbrodt, and should therefore include at least some new material.

For discussion on April 4:

• Recanati, 2002 (passwd required)
• Carston, 2002 (passwd required)
• Bach, 2006 (from his website)