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This course is the third and final part of our graduate introduction to semantics. The other two classes are 24.970 Introduction to Semantics and 24.973 Advanced Semantics.
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This course includes
Hours of videos
222 years, 2 months
Units & Quizzes
8
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The semester will be divided into somewhat independent units. One unit will be devoted to conversational implicatures (mainly scalar implicatures) and another to presupposition. In each unit, we will discuss basic concepts and technical tools and then devote some time to recent work which illustrates their application
Course Currilcum
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- Pragmatics and implicatures Unlimited
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- Hurford disjunctions Unlimited
- Chierchia’s Puzzle and Sauerland’s account Unlimited
- Economy and embedded exhaustification Unlimited
- Presuppositions; introductory comments Unlimited
- Schlenker 2008, basics Unlimited
- Relevance and presupposition projection Unlimited
