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Semantics II (207): Dynamic theories UCLA, Spring 2011 Jessica Rett, [email protected] where: Bunche 3143 when: Tuesday/Thursday, 11am-1pm oﬃce hours: Thursday 2-4pm expectations: do the reading; turn in homework; write a 15-page term paper due at noon on Friday, June 10; discuss your topic with me by May 26th.

day topic readings* homework 1 Tuesday, March 29 Introduction Montague (1973) Thursday, March 31 Montague Grammar 1 Gamut (1991) §6.1–6.3.5 Dowty et al. (1981) 2 Tuesday, April 5 Montague Grammar 2 Gamut (1991) §6.3.6–6.3.10 homework 1 due Thursday, April 7 Individual concepts & Drefs Karttunen (1971) 3 Tuesday, April 12 Foundations of DRT Heim (1983); Kamp (1981); Heim (1982) homework 2 due Thursday, April 14 Introduction to DRT Kamp and Reyle (1993) Ch 1 4 Tuesday, April 19 Quantifiers in DRT 1 Kamp and Reyle (1993) Ch 2 homework 3 due Thursday, April 21 Quantifiers in DRT 2 Kamp and Reyle (1993) Ch 3 5 Tuesday, April 26 Tense & Aspect in DRT 1 Kamp and Reyle (1993) §5-5.3 homework 4 due Thursday, April 28 Tense & Aspect in DRT 2 Kamp and Reyle (1993) §5.4-5.6 6 Tuesday, May 3 Anaphora in DRT Beaver (2002) homework 5 due Thursday, May 5 Presupposition in DRT Krahmer and van Deemter (1998) 7 Tuesday, May 10 Foundations of DPL 1 Groenendijk and Stokhof (1991) §1-§3 Thursday, May 12 Foundations of DPL 2 Groenendijk and Stokhof (1991) §4-§5 8 Tuesday, May 17 Quantifiers in DPL 1 Brasoveanu (2011) Thursday, May 19 Quantifiers in DPL 2 Brasoveanu (2011) 9 Tuesday, May 24 Plurals in DPL Nouwen (2007) Thursday, May 26 Reflexives/Reciprocals in DPL Murray (2008); Murray (2007) 10 Tuesday, May 31 Questions in discourse 1 Asher and Lascarides (1998) Thursday, June 2 Questions in discourse 2 Asher and Lascarides (1998) *Italicized readings are optional but relevant.

More on... dynamic theories generally: Bentham (1996), Roberts (2004) attitude reports: Asher (1986, 1989); Kamp (1990) conditionals: Starr (2009) disjunction & negation: Krahmer and Muskens (1995) evidentials: Murray (2010a,b) modals: Roberts (1987); Brasoveanu (2010a) Montagovian DRT: Muskens (1996) plurality: van den Berg (1996) presupposition: Beaver (2001, 2002); Kamp (2001); Kamp and Rossdeutscher (1994) quantiﬁers: Brasoveanu (2010b) questions: van Rooy (1998); Aloni and van Rooy (2002), Groenendijk (2009) tense/aspect: Bittner (2005, 2007)

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