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Schedule (subject to change)
Schedule (subject to change)
January 23: Discourse structure, discourse relations and pronominal anaphora
January 23: Discourse structure, discourse relations and pronominal anaphora
- Required reading: Kehler, Kertz, Rohde & Elman 2008
- Suggested reading: Kehler & Rohde 2016
- Background reading on rhetorical relations: Kehler 2002: Chapter 2; Zeevat 2011; Jasinskaja & Karagjosova 2015: Sections 1-2
- Background reading on subordination/coordination: Asher & Vieu 2005; Jasinskaja & Karagjosova 2015: Section 3
January 30: Temporal anaphora and the meaning of 'now'
January 30: Temporal anaphora and the meaning of 'now'
- Required reading: Altshuler 2016: Chapter 2
- Suggested reading: Hunter 2012
- Background reading on the semantics of 'now': Kamp 1971
- Background reading on narrative progression: Partee 1973, Partee 1984; Hinrichs 1986; Webber 1988
February 6: Dyadic temporal connectives
February 6: Dyadic temporal connectives
- Sam Carter's visit
- Assignment: First research proposal due
February 13: Underlying states and ontology
February 13: Underlying states and ontology
- Student presentations (details forthcoming)
- Required reading: Maienborn 2005, one response paper from Theoretical Linguistics 31(3) that you will present
- Suggested reading: Katz 2000, Maienborn 2016, Ernst 2016
- Background reading on underlying events: Davidson 1967
February 20: President's day (no class)
February 20: President's day (no class)
- Assignment: Second research proposal due
February 27: Perspective taking and indexicality (Part 1)
February 27: Perspective taking and indexicality (Part 1)
- Student presentations of Lecture Notes 2 and Lecture Notes 3 (Roberts 2017)
- Background reading: Lecture Notes 1 (Roberts 2017)
- Craige's current NYU course on indexicality
March 2 (Thursday make up class in advance, @5:15pm): Perspective taking and indexicality (Part 2)
March 2 (Thursday make up class in advance, @5:15pm): Perspective taking and indexicality (Part 2)
- Craige Roberts' visit
- Required reading: Lecture Notes 4/5 (Roberts 2017)
- Craige's current NYU course on indexicality
March 6: No Class (Daniel away at DGfS 2017)
March 6: No Class (Daniel away at DGfS 2017)
March 13: No Class (Spring Break)
March 13: No Class (Spring Break)
March 20: Pronouns as pure indexicals (Part 1)
March 20: Pronouns as pure indexicals (Part 1)
- Student presentations (details forthcoming)
- Required reading: Stojnić, Stone & Lepore, forthcoming
- Background reading on centering theory: Grosz, Joshi and Weinstein 1995
- Background reading on dynamic semantics: Dekker 2011; Nouwen et al 2016
March 27: Pronouns as pure indexicals (Part 2)
March 27: Pronouns as pure indexicals (Part 2)
- Una Stojnić's visit
- Assignment: Third research proposal due
April 10: Anaphora without coindexation
April 10: Anaphora without coindexation
- Dag Haug's visit
- Required reading: Haug 2014
- Background reading on compositional DRT: Muskens 1996
- Background reading on anaphora resolution: Beaver 2002
April 18 (Tuesday, Monday's schedule): Temporal phora in "Sylvie"
April 18 (Tuesday, Monday's schedule): Temporal phora in "Sylvie"
- Required reading: Sylvie by Gérard de Nerval
- Suggested reading about "Sylvie": Hobbs 1990: Chapter 7
- Suggested reading about processing of anaphora and cataphora: Fedele and Kaiser 2014
April 21 (Friday): Definite NPs
April 21 (Friday): Definite NPs
- Hans Kamp's visit
- Required reading: Kamp, forthcoming
- Suggested reading: Riester 2008
April 24: Events and situations (part 1)
April 24: Events and situations (part 1)
- Student presentations
- Required reading: Ramchand, forthcoming: Chapters 1 & 2
- Suggested reading: Arregui et al 2014
- Background reading: Kratzer 2014
May 1: Events and situations (part 2)
May 1: Events and situations (part 2)
- Gillian Ramchand's visit
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