24.910 | Spring 2009 | Undergraduate

Topics in Linguistic Theory: Propositional Attitudes

Calendar

CP = left peripheral field of the clause

SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Introduction and preview  
2 Semantics 1: possible world semantics for attitudes Homework exercise 1 due
3 Semantics 2: presupposition and sequence of tense Homework exercise 2 due
4

Semantics 3: self-locating attitudes and logophors

Student presentations 1

Homework exercise 3 due
5 Semantics 3: self-locating attitudes and logophors (cont.) Paper 1 due
6 Syntax 1: CP structure and embedded clauses  
7 Syntax 2: control and raising  
8

Pragmatics 1: evidentials and expressive meaning

Student presentations 2

Homework exercise 4 due
9 Pragmatics 2: conversation and common ground, context set, assertion, presupposition, and applications Paper 2 due
10 Pragmatics 2: conversation and common ground and presupposition (cont.) Homework exercise 5 due
11 Pragmatics 2: presupposition and embedding verbs (cont.) Homework exercise 6 due
12 Student presentations 3 Paper 3 due

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