24.910 | Spring 2009 | Undergraduate

Topics in Linguistic Theory: Propositional Attitudes

Lecture Notes

Notes are available for selected lectures below.

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1 Introduction and preview (PDF)
2 Semantics 1: possible world semantics for attitudes (PDF)
3 Semantics 2: presupposition and sequence of tense (PDF)
4

Semantics 3: self-locating attitudes and logophors (PDF)

Student presentations 1

5 Semantics 3: self-locating attitudes and logophors (cont.)
6 Syntax 1: CP structure and embedded clauses (PDF)
7

Syntax 2: control and raising

(PDF 1)

(PDF 2) (Courtesy of Jeremy Hartman. Used with permission.)

8

Pragmatics 1: evidentials and expressive meaning (PDF)

Student presentations 2

9 Pragmatics 2: conversation and common ground, context set, assertion, presupposition, and applications (PDF)
10 Pragmatics 2: conversation and common ground and presupposition (cont.) (PDF)
11 Pragmatics 2: presupposition and embedding verbs (cont.) (PDF)
12 Student presentations 3

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