In Spring 2018, we met Mondays, 1pm, in Dwinelle 1303. Our focus for the first half of this semester was on attitude reports. For the second half of the semester, we interwove continued discussion of attitude reports with discussion and presentation of our ongoing work in progress.
- April 23: Mass and count; plans for fall 2018
- April 16: Sven Neth on 3rd readings AND Erik Hans Maier on Tswefap quantifiers
- April 9: Virginia Dawson on disjunction in Tiwa AND Rachel Rudolph on copy-raising
- April 2: Tyler Lemon on Vietnamese comparatives
- March 19: Tessa Scott on temporal interpretation in Mam Mayan
- March 12: Shifty indexicals without de se requirements
- March 5: Anand and Nevins; de se via indexical shift
- February 26: De se via binding; indexicals and contexts
- February 19: no meeting [Presidents' Day]
- February 12: Lewis 1979 on attitudes de dicto and de se
- February 5: De re constructions in Nez Perce and Tiwa (Work in progress by Virginia Dawson, Amy Rose Deal)
- January 29: De re constructions in Nez Perce (Work in progress by Amy Rose)
- January 22: Schwager 2011 and the replacement principle
RGFS was inaugurated in Fall 2017. That semester we met Wednesdays, 2pm, until Oct 11; thereafter we met Mondays and Wednesdays both. Our topic was comparatives and degree constructions for the first half of the semester, and then attitudes for the second half.
Attitudes:
- Nov 27/29: Res movement; concept generators . Percus and Sauerland 2003, On the LFs of attitude reports
- Nov 13/15/20: Problems for the scope theory of de re. Maier 2009, Presupposing acquaintance: a unified semantics for de dicto, de re and de se belief reports (pp 429-440)
- Nov 6/8: Third readings. von Fintel and Heim, Intensional semantics lecture notes, ch 8
- Oct 30/Nov 1: Russell's ambiguity; double indexing; TY2
- Oct 23/25: Possibilities and propositions. Hintikka 1969, Semantics for propositional attitudes AND Heim and Kratzer ch 12
Comparatives and degree constructions:
- Oct 16-18: Presentations on comparatives and degrees to 221 students
- Oct 11: Bhatt and Takahashi 2011, Reduced and unreduced phrasal comparatives
- Oct 4: Kennedy 2007, Modes of comparison AND Bochnak 2015, The degree semantics parameter and cross-linguistic variation
- Sept 27: Beck et al 2009, Crosslinguistic variation in comparison constructions AND Bogal-Albritten 2015, Investigating gradable predicates, comparison, and degree constructions in underrepresented languages
- Sept 20: Heim 1985, Notes on comparatives and related matters AND Heim 2000, Degree operators and scope
- Sept 13: von Stechow 1984, Comparing semantic theories of comparison
- August 30: Cresswell 1976, The semantics of degree
- August 23: Klein 1980, A semantics for positive and comparative adjectives