24.954 | Spring 2010 | Graduate

Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory

Lecture Notes

TOPICS LECTURE NOTES
Implicatures
Pragmatics and implicatures (PDF)
Free choice disjunction and implicatures
Hurford disjunctions (PDF)
Modularity and embedded implicatures
Chierchia’s Puzzle and Sauerland’s account (PDF)

Economy and embedded exhaustification

With Benjamin Spector. (Used with permission.)

(PDF)
Implicatures: On the nature of alternatives
Back to the theory of implicatures (PDF)
Presuppositions
Presuppositions; introductory comments (PDF)
Schlenker 2008, basics (PDF)
Relevance and presupposition projection (PDF)

Course Info

Spring 2010
Lecture Notes
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