Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory
24.954 · Linguistics and Philosophy · Graduate · Fall 2006
Prof. Daniel Fox, Prof. Paula Menéndez-Benito
The course introduces formal theories of context-dependency, presupposition, implicature, context-change, focus and topic. Special emphasis is on the division of labor between semantics and pragmatics. It also covers applications to the analysis of quantification, definiteness, presupposition projection, conditionals and modality, anaphora, questions and answers.
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