Topics in Linguistic Theory: Propositional Attitudes

Readings

Readings should be completed before each session.

SES #	TOPICS	READINGS
1	Introduction and preview
2	Semantics 1: possible world semantics for attitudes	von Fintel, Kai, and Irene Heim. Lecture Notes on Intensional Semantics. Chapters 1 and 2. (PDF)
3	Semantics 2: presupposition and sequence of tense	von Fintel, Kai, and Irene Heim. Lecture Notes on Intensional Semantics. Chapters 1 and 2. (PDF) 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.
4	Semantics 3: self-locating attitudes and logophors Student presentations 1	Karttunen, Lauri. “Implicative Verbs.” Language 47, no. 2 (June 1971): 340-358. ———. Some Observations on Factivity. Papers in Linguistics 4, no. 1 (1971): 55-69.
5	Semantics 3: self-locating attitudes and logophors (cont.)
6	Syntax 1: CP structure and embedded clauses	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. Lewis, David. “Attitudes De Dicto and De Se.” Philosophical Review 88, no. 4 (October 1979): 513-543. Recommended Perry, John. “Frege on Demonstratives.” Philosophical Review 86, no. 4 (October 1977): 474-497. ———. “The Problem of the Essential Indexical.” Noûs 13, no. 1 (March 1979): 3-21. 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.
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.
8	Pragmatics 1: evidentials and expressive meaning Student presentations 2	Henry, Alison. “Introduction,” and “For To Infinitives.” Chapters 1 and 4 in Belfast English and Standard English: Dialect Variation and Parameter Setting. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 3-15 and 81-104. ISBN: 9780195082920.
9	Pragmatics 2: conversation and common ground, context set, assertion, presupposition, and applications	Stalnaker, Robert. “Pragmatics.” Synthese 22, nos. 1-2 (December 1970): 272-289. ———. “Presuppositions.” Journal of Philosophical Logic 2 (1973): 447-457. ———. “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. ———. “Common Ground.” Linguistics and Philosophy 25, nos. 5-6 (December 2002): 701-721.
10	Pragmatics 2: conversation and common ground and presupposition (cont.)	Karttunen, Lauri. “Presuppositions of Compound Sentences.” Linguistic Inquiry 4, no. 2 (1973): 169-193. 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.
11	Pragmatics 2: presupposition and embedding verbs (cont.)	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. Simons, Mandy. “Observations on Embedding Verbs, Evidentiality, and Presupposition.” Lingua 117, no. 6 (June 2007): 1034-1056.
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