Materials
- Dec 5
- Homework 5 and Paper 3 [HW5 due Dec 14; P3 due by midnight on Dec 21]
- Nov 19
- Assignment 4: Starting the pilot study [due Nov 28]
- Nov 14
- Group work: Focus
- Handout: Introduction to focus
- And check out Malcom Gladwell's New Yorker article on criminal profiling
- Nov 5
- Group work: Properties of other kinds of ellipsis
- Oct 24
- Group work: Questionnaires about the questionnaires for Paper 2
- Oct 19
- Paper 2 [due October 29]
- Group work: Supplement to Homework 3
- Oct 17
- Handout: Information status: Old vs. new
- Handout: My homework 3 (with the results of the pilot study)
- Handout: A few live examples
- Oct 15
- Handout: Presuppositions: Negation and questions
- Pilot study: The small world hypothesis [version 1; version 2]
- Oct 12
- Handout: Analyzing and interpreting data (Florian)
- Handout: Group work summary and notes (Florian)
- Assignment 3 [due Oct 19]
- Oct 10
- Handout: Experiment design (Florian)
- Group work: On experiment design (Florian)
- Oct 3
- Handout: Some general thoughts on Paper 1
- Handout: Group work data
- Pilot study: Embedding [version 1; version 2; results]
- Oct 1
- Group work: Presupposing
- Handout: Introduction to presuppositions
- Sep 26
- Handout: Ways of failing to live up to the maxims
- Syllabus addendum: Extra credit, and making up for missed work
- Sep 24
- Handout: Chris's (partial) Paper 1
- Handout: Some pragmatic generalizations (useful for Paper 1)
- Sep 17
- Handout: Conversational implicatures
- Group work: Life with and without the maxims
- Sep 10
- Group work: Pragmatic enrichment: Introduction by examples
- Handout: Introduction to pragmatics
- Sep 5
- Printable version of the syllabus
- Daily schedule (topics tentative; due dates and quiz dates fixed)
- Handout: Summary of topics
- Homework 1: A brief survey