LOT Winter School 2010 course description

Course Titel

Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

Teacher

Mana Kobuchi-Philip

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E-mail: m.kobuchi@uu.nl

Postal Address:  Janskerkhof 13a, 3512 BL Utrecht, The Netherlands

Homepage: http://www.let.uu.nl/~Mana.Kobuchi/personal/

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Course Level:

Intermediate.

Some background in formal semantics.
But empirical data will be emphasized.

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Course Description

In this course we pick a few linguistics phenomena in which syntactic, semantic and pragmatic mechanisms determine well-formedness in the context. We try to isolate the role of each mechanism and also discuss the way in which they interact. We will cover such concepts as compositionality, truth functionality, conventional implicature, conversational implicature, inference, and accommodation, among other things.

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Day-to-day Program

Monday: Syntax and pragmatics interface [Scalar implicature]

Tuesday: Syntax and pragmatics interface [Even]

Wednesday: Syntax and semantics interface [Indeterminates]

Thursday: Semantics and pragmatics interface [NPI]

Friday: Semantics and pragmatics interface [Only]

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Course readings

(as the core readings):

Chierchia, Gennaro: 2004, “Scalar implicatures, polarity phenomena, and the

syntax/pragmatics interface.” In A. Belletti (ed.) Structures and Beyond

Vol. 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 39103.

Karttunen, Lauri and Steven Peters: 1979. “Conventional implicature.” In C.K. Oh

and D.A. Dinneen (eds.) Syntax and Semantics 11: Presuppositions. New

York: Academic Press.156.

Shimoyama, Junko: 2006. “Indeterminate phrase quantification in Japanese.”

Natural Language Semantics 14, 139173.

Kadmon, Nirit and Fred Landman “Any.” Linguistics and Philosophy 16, 353422.

Ippolito, Michela 2008. “On the meaning of only.” Journal of Semantics 25, 4591.