Linguistics/Philosophy
596D
Handouts
Spring 2004
January 14: Preliminaries
MPP: Overview
of the strong compositionality
hypothesis
HH: Sources of
ambiguity in natural language utterances
January 21: Compositionality of natural language vs LOT
MPP: Thoughts
on Fodor, Hume Variations
HH: Meaning in
frames? Gleitman, Pinker, Goldberg
January 28
MPP: More on
Hume Variations: Does LF exist?
HH: Finishing off Fischer/Gleitman et al. vs. Pinker
(see handout above)
Coming soon: a more explicit discussion of the 'homophonous
constructions'
problem.
February 4
MPP: Higginbotham on compositionality
HH: Why Fodor's 3
reasons not to analyse 'kill' as 'cause to die' are not reasons not to
analyse 'melt' as 'make melted.
February 11
MPP: More on Higginbotham on
compositionality
HH:
February
18
MPP:
HH: McGinnis on
aspectual properties of idioms, Williams on lexical knowledge
February
25
MPP:
HH: Kratzer on severing
the external argument, Marantz on no escape from syntax
March 3
MPP:
HH: Marantz on
remarks on nominalization, Hale and Keyser
March 10
MPP:
HH: Horvath &
Siloni on little v, Kiparsky on denominal verbs
March 17
**Spring Break**
March 24
MPP:
HH:
March 31
MPP: Pietroski on 'Meaning Before Truth'
HH:
April 7
Dusana
MPP:
HH:
April 21
MPP: Iatridou & VonFintel on "If
and When If-clauses can restrict quantifiers"
HH:
Mike, Erin
April 28
Justin
Fisher on connectionism and linguistic competence
MPP:
HH:
May 5
Greta, reprise of Mike on Schiffler & Fodor, summation
MPP:
HH: