Linguistics/Philosophy 596D
Readings

Spring 2004

Miscellaneous items of interest:
Markus Werning review of Fodor's In Critical Condition: Polemical Essays on Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Mind, in Psyche.
Markus Werning, 2004, "Compositionality, Context, Categories and the Indeterminacy of Translation," in Erkenntnis 60.
John Collins, 2004, "Review of Louise M. Antony and Norbert Hornstein (eds.), Chomsky and his Critics, Blackwell, Oxford, 2003", Erkenntnis 60
Kratzer, Angelika: Event arguments and the semantics of verbs, Chapter 1. (3 other chapters available from the Semantics Archive).
Higginbotham, James. 1985. On Semantics.

January 14: Preliminaries
(see Handouts: MPP on strong compositionality thesis; HH on sources of ambiguity in NL)

January 21: Compositionality of natural language vs LOT
    MPP: Last chapter of Fodor, "Hume Variations", OUP
    HH: Fischer, Hall, Rakowitz and Gleitman 1994; also Pinker's 1994 response

January 28
    MPP: More on Hume Variations
    HH: More on Fischer et al. vs. Pinker (see above)

February 4
    MPP: Higginbotham on compositionality
    HH: Fodor, 3 reasons

February 11
    MPP: More on Higgy & compositionality
    HH:

February 18
    MPP:
    HH:Mcginnis: The systematic aspect of idioms, Williams, Remarks on Lexical Knowledge

February 25
    MPP:
    HH: Marantz 1997: No escape from syntax, Kratzer 1996, Severing the external argument from its verb
          (also see the Kratzer chapter on event arguments linked to above)

March 3
    MPP:
    HH:  Marantz 1997: No escape from syntax, (a modern reading of
            Chomsky 1970 Remarks on Nominalization),
            Hale and Keyser 1997 On the complex nature of simple predicators,
         
March 10
    MPP:
    HH:   Kiparsky 1997 Remarks on denominal verbs,
              Horvath & Siloni (2003) Against the little-v hypothesis,
              Glasbey 2003 Let's paint the town red for a few hours: Composition of aspect in idioms.


March 17 **Spring Break**

March 24
    MPP:   Stanley,  Szabo,  Bach,  Neale and Pelletier on quantifiers (see polis web site)
    HH:

March 31
    MPP: Pietroski (see polis web site)
    HH:

April 7
    MPP: Iatridou & Von Fintel (see polis web site)
    HH:

April 14
    Dusana: Baedecker on compositionality & compounding
    Gretta: Reimer on adjectives and compositionality

April 21
    Erin on focus, stress and compositionaltiy
    Mike on Schiffer and mentalese

April 28
    Justin

May 5
    MPP:
    HH: