|
Day |
Topic | Reading |
Assignment due
(assignments are boldfaced) |
|
T1/16 |
Introduction |
Saeed 1 |
|
|
R1/18 |
Semantics vs.
pragmatics |
Croft
& Cruse 2, [Fillmore] |
|
|
T1/23 |
Metaphorical
understanding |
Reddy,
Lakoff 1993, Croft & Cruse 8, [Lakoff & Johnson] |
|
|
R1/25 |
Linguistic relativity I |
Saeed 2, Whorf,
Slobin |
Metaphorical mapping |
|
T1/30 |
Linguistic
relativity II |
Lakoff
18, Overview of pragmatic theory (using 'Defining the
Terrain' Week 1 handout) |
|
|
R2/1 |
Categorization I |
Lakoff pp. 1-57,
Croft
& Cruse 4 |
|
|
T2/6 |
Categorization II |
Lakoff pp. 58-90 |
|
|
R2/8 |
Lexical relations |
Saeed 3, Croft
&
Cruse 5, [Zwicky & Sadock] |
Radial category |
|
T2/13 |
Deixis;
polysemy and categorization |
Levinson 2 |
Will Corvey and Alyson Daly present on
Levinson, Chapter 2, 'Deixis' |
|
R2/15 |
Conclusion of
polysemy and categorization |
Saeed 4 |
Polysemy |
|
T2/20 |
Sentence relations
and truth I |
Levinson 4 |
Giannina
Guardia and Meredith Green present on Levinson, Chapter
3, 'Presupposition' |
|
R2/22 |
Sentence relations
and truth II; Situations I |
Saeed 5, Slobin
& Aksu |
Marcela Martinez and John Miller
present on Slobin and Aksu,
'Tense, Aspect and Modality in the Use of the Turkish Evidential' |
|
T2/27 |
Situations II |
Bickel |
Presupposition;
Roxanne
Gaines and Lindsey Gatewood present on Bickel, 'Aspectual
Scope' |
|
R3/1 |
Situations III |
DeSwart |
|
|
T3/6 |
Participants I:
Semantic Roles |
Saeed 6 |
Aspect; Travis Rood presents on
Saeed, Chapter 6, 'Participants' |
|
R3/8 |
Participants II:
Surface Generalizations |
Goldberg |
Sara
Klingenstein, Anastasia Kostetskaya and Kotoe Tashiro present on
Goldberg, 'Surface Generalizations' |
|
T3/13 |
Participants III:
Verb Frame Alternations |
Saeed 7 |
|
|
R3/15 |
Context I:
Inference |
Grice, Levinson 3,
Kay |
Participants: S 6.1-6.3,
6.5; Lily Delaney and Adrianne Fillerup present on
Levinson, Chapter 3, 'Conversational Implicature' |
|
T3/20 |
Context
II: Inference |
Horn |
|
|
R3/22 |
Speech acts |
Saeed 8, Levinson 5
|
Gricean
pragmatics |
|
Spring Break |
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|
T4/3 |
Componential
analysis I |
Saeed 9 |
|
|
R4/5 |
Componential
analysis II |
Rappaport Hovav
& Levin |
Speech acts |
|
T4/10 |
Componential
analysis III |
|
|
|
R4/12 |
Formal semantics I |
Saeed 10 |
|
|
T4/1 |
Argument structure and information structure |
Lambrecht |
Componential analysis: S 9.2-9.3, 9.6,
9.9; Cari Allen and Lyndsie Clark present on
Lambrecht,
'The Pragmatics of Case' |
|
R4/19 |
Formal semantics
II |
|
|
|
T4/24 |
Cognitive semantics I |
Saeed 11, Croft & Cruse 3 |
Formal semantics: S 10.1-10.4, 10.6 |
|
R4/26 |
Cognitive semantics
II |
Talmy, Polinsky |
Yomi
Okunowo and Lee Rabideau present on Polinsky,
'Situation Perspective' |
|
T5/1 |
Cognitive semantics
III |
Langacker,
Fauconnier &
Turner |
David Harper and Alex Johnson
present on
Fauconnier
and Turner, 'Principles of Conceptual Integration' |
|
R5/3 |
Usage |
Nunberg |
Cognitive semantics: S
11.3-11.4,
11.6-11.7 |