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Advanced Topics in Linguistic Analysis

3-0-9 units. HASS-S · Undergraduate

In-depth study of an advanced topic in phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax or semantics, with a focus on the interfaces among these grammar components. Provides practice in written and oral communication.

Spring 2009 · Topics in Linguistic Theory: Propositional Attitudes

Topics

  • Introduction and preview
  • Semantics 1: possible world semantics for attitudes
  • Semantics 2: presupposition and sequence of tense
  • Semantics 3: self-locating attitudes and logophors (cont.)
  • Syntax 1: CP structure and embedded clauses
  • Syntax 2: control and raising
  • Pragmatics 2: conversation and common ground, context set, assertion, presupposition, and applications
  • Pragmatics 2: conversation and common ground and presupposition (cont.)
  • Pragmatics 2: presupposition and embedding verbs (cont.)
  • Student presentations 3

Readings

  • Reading assignment
  • Listed reading
  • Heim, Irene, and Angelika Kratzer. “Truth-Conditional Semantics and the Fregean Program,” “Executing the Fregean Program,” and “Semantics and Syntax.” Chapters 1 to 3 in Semantics in Generative Grammar . Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1998, pp. 1-32. ISBN: 9780631197133.
    Listed reading
  • Karttunen, Lauri. “Implicative Verbs.” Language 47, no. 2 (June 1971): 340-358.
    Listed reading
  • ———. Some Observations on Factivity. Papers in Linguistics 4, no. 1 (1971): 55-69.
    Listed reading
  • Morgan, Jerry. “On the Criterion of Identity for Noun Phrase Deletion.” In Papers from the Sixth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society . Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society, 1970, pp. 380-389. ISBN: 9780914203018.
    Listed reading
  • Lewis, David. “Attitudes De Dicto and De Se .” Philosophical Review 88, no. 4 (October 1979): 513-543.
    Listed reading
  • Perry, John. “Frege on Demonstratives.” Philosophical Review 86, no. 4 (October 1977): 474-497.
    Recommended
  • ———. “The Problem of the Essential Indexical.” Noûs 13, no. 1 (March 1979): 3-21.
    Recommended
  • Chierchia, Gennaro. “Anaphora and Attitudes De Se .” In Semantics and Contextual Expression . Edited by Renate Bartsch, Jan F. A. K. van Benthem, and P. van Emde Boas. Providence, RI: Foris Publications, 1990, pp. 1-32. ISBN: 9789067654432.
    Recommended
  • 7 · Syntax 2: control and raising · Carnie, Andrew. “NP/DP Movement,” and “Raising, Control, and Empty Categories.” Chapters 9 and 10 in Syntax: A Generative Introduction . Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. ISBN: 9780631225430.
    Recommended
  • Stalnaker, Robert. “Pragmatics.” Synthese 22, nos. 1-2 (December 1970): 272-289.
    Recommended
  • ———. “Presuppositions.” Journal of Philosophical Logic 2 (1973): 447-457.
    Recommended
  • ———. “Pragmatic Presuppositions.” In Semantics and Philosophy . Edited by Milton Munitz and Peter Under. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1974. ISBN: 9780814753668. Reprinted in Context and Content: Essays on Intentionality in Speech and Thought . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 47-62. ISBN: 9780198237075.
    Recommended
  • ———. “Common Ground.” Linguistics and Philosophy 25, nos. 5-6 (December 2002): 701-721.
    Recommended
  • Karttunen, Lauri. “Presuppositions of Compound Sentences.” Linguistic Inquiry 4, no. 2 (1973): 169-193.
    Recommended
  • Stalnaker, Robert. “Pragmatic Presuppositions.” In Semantics and Philosophy . Edited by Milton Munitz and Peter Under. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1974. ISBN: 9780814753668. Reprinted in Context and Content: Essays on Intentionality in Speech and Thought . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 47-62. ISBN: 9780198237075.
    Recommended
  • Recommended
Spring 2007 · Topics in Linguistic Theory: Laboratory Phonology

The goal of this course is to prepare you to engage in experimental investigations of questions related to linguistic theory, focusing on phonetics and phonology.

Readings

Spring 2003 · Topics in Linguistics Theory

Topics

  • Introduction
  • More Introduction
  • Typology and Semantics
  • Performatives, Epistemic Modality
  • Evidentials and Epistemic Modality
  • Direct Evidentiality
  • Indirect Evidentiality
  • Embedded Assertions
  • Evidentials in Conditionals
  • Faller’s Ideas
  • Last Class

Readings

  • Garrett, Edward. “Evidentiality and Assertion in Tibetan.” UCLA PhD Dissertation. 2001.
    Listed reading
  • Listed reading
  • Faller, Chapter 1.
    Listed reading
  • Garrett, Chapter 2.
    Listed reading
  • Optional Readings:
    Listed reading
  • Faller, Martina. “Remarks on Evidential Hierarchies.” In The Construction of Meaning . Edited by David I. Beaver, Luis D. Casillas Martínez, Brady Z. Clark, and Stefan Kaufmann. Stanford: CSLI, 2002.
    Listed reading
  • Dendale, Patrick, and Tasmowski, Liliane. “Introduction: Evidentiality and Related Notions.” Journal of Pragmatics 33 (2001): 339–348.
    Listed reading
  • Plungian, Vladimir A. “The Place of Evidentiality within the Universal Grammatical Space.” Journal of Pragmatics 33 (2001): 349–357.
    Listed reading
  • Lyons, J. Semantics. Cambridge University Press: 1977.
    Listed reading
  • Urmson, J.O. “Parenthetical Verbs.” Mind 61: 192-212.
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 3 · TOPICS: Typology and Semantics · READINGS: Faller, Chapter 2.
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 4 · TOPICS: Performatives, Epistemic Modality · READINGS: Garrett, Chapter 2.
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 5 · TOPICS: Evidentials and Epistemic Modality · READINGS: Faller, Chapter 3.
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 6 · TOPICS: Direct Evidentiality Best Possible Grounds · READINGS: Garrett, Chapter 3. Faller, Chapter 4.
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 7 · TOPICS: Indirect Evidentiality · READINGS: Faller, Chapter 5.
    Reading assignment
  • Garrett, Chapter 5. Heycock on Embedded Root Phenomena
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 9 · TOPICS: Evidentials in Conditionals · READINGS: Garrett, Chapter 7.
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 10 · TOPICS: Faller’s Ideas · READINGS: Faller, Chapter 6 and 7.
    Reading assignment
  • Garrett in his chapter 2 makes crucial reference to a paper by Roumyana Izvorski (now Pancheva):
    Listed reading
  • Listed reading
  • Some Questions on Garrett — Chapter 2:
    Listed reading
  • As you’re reading Garrett’s chapter 2, here are some questions to think about.
    Listed reading
  • “Epistemic Modality and Truth Conditions.” To appear in Approaches to Modality (provisional title). Edited by A. Klinge, and H. Muller, 2003.
    Listed reading
  • Faller, Martina. “Semantics and Pragmatics of Evidentials in Cuzco Quechua.” Stanford PhD Dissertation. 2002.
    Listed reading

Prerequisites & course information

Prereq: ( 24.901 , 24.902 , and 24.903 ) or permission of instructor Acad Year 2027-2028: U (Fall) Acad Year 2028-2029: Not offered 3-0-9 units. HASS-S Can be repeated for credit.

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