What sentences do
Instructor:Tom Robertst.d.h.roberts@uu.nl
Here you will find all course notes, slides, problems, and a small boatload of optional readings if you are curious to learn more. If there are any errors that need to be corrected I will make a note of that here too.
Day 1: Foundations: Speech Acts & Sentence Types [slides]
Readings:- Bach, Kent & Robert Harnish. (1979). Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts. MIT Press. [link]
- Sadock, Gerald & Arnold Zwicky. (1986).[link]
Day 2: Modeling sentential meanings [slides]
Readings:- Farkas, Donka & Kim Bruce. (2010). On reacting to assertions and polar questions. Journal of Semantics 27: 81-118. [link]
- Hamblin, C.L. (1973). Questions in Montague English. Foundations of Language 10(1): 41-53.[link]
Day 3: Formalizing a pragmatics for the Table [slides]
- Rudin, Deniz. (2022).[link]
Day 4: Intonational meaning and Rising Declaratives [slides]
- Gunlogson, Christine. (2008). A question of commitment. Belgian Journal of Linguistics 22: 101–136. [link]
- Jeong, Sunwoo. (2018). Intonation and sentence type conventions: Two types of rising declaratives. Journal of Semantics 35(2): 305–356. [link]
- Malamud, Sophia & Tamina Stephenson. (2015). Three ways to avoid commitment: Declarative force modifiers in the conversational scoreboard. Journal of Semantics 32(2): 275–311. [link]