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Readings

Bibliography I: Fall 2002 (PDF)
Bibliography II: Fall 2000 (PDF)
Textbooks, Anthologies, Surveys

Levinson, Stephen. Pragmatics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Horn, Larry. "Presupposition and Implicature." In The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory. Edited by Shalom Lappin. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996, pp. 299–319.

Gazdar, Gerald. Pragmatics: Implicature, Presupposition and Logical Form. New York: Academic Press, 1979.

Davis, Steven, ed. Pragmatics: A Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Cole, Peter, ed. Syntax and Semantics 9: Pragmatics. New York: Academic Press, 1978.

Cole, Peter, ed. Radical Pragmatics. New York: Academic Press, 1981.

Sperber, Dan, and Deirdre Wilson. Relevance: Communication and Cognition. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.

Chierchia, Gennaro and Sally McConnell-Ginet. "Speaking, Meaning, and Doing" (chap. 4), and "Contexts: Indexicality, Discourse, and Presuppositions" (chap. 6). In Meaning and Grammar: An Introduction to Semantics. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 1990/2000.

Kadmon, Nirit. Formal Pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.

1 Conversational Implicature

1.1 General Discussion, Methodological Issues

Grice, Paul. Studies in the Way of Words. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989.

Sadock, Jerry. "On Testing for Conversational Implicature" (1978). In Syntax and Semantics 9: Pragmatics. Edited by Peter Cole. New York: Academic Press, 1978.

Harnish, Robert. "Implicature and Logical Form" (1976). In Pragmatics: A Reader. Edited by Steven Davis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Gazdar, Gerald. "Implicature." Chapter 3 in Pragmatics: Implicature, Presupposition and Logical Form. New York: Academic Press, 1979.

Nunberg, Geoffrey. "Validating Pragmatic Explanations" (1981). In Radical Pragmatics. Edited by Peter Cole. New York: Academic Press, 1981.

Avramides, Anita. Meaning and Mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989.

Levinson, Stephen. Presumptive Meanings: The Theory of Generalized Implicature. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.

Gauker, Christopher. "Situated Inference versus Conversational Implicature." Noûs 35, 2 (2001): 163–189.

Saul, Jennifer. "What is Said and Psychological Reality; Grice's Project and Relevance Theorists' Criticisms." Linguistics and Philosophy 25 (2002): 347–372.

1.2 Quantity Implicatures

Gazdar, Gerald. "Implicature." Chapter 3 in Pragmatics: Implicature, Presupposition and Logical Form. New York: Academic Press, 1979.

Atlas, Jay David, and Stephen Levinson. "It-Clefts, Informativeness, and Logical Form: Radical Pragmatics" (1981) (Revised Standard Version). In Radical Pragmatics. Edited by Peter Cole. New York: Academic Press, 1981, pp. 1–61.

Horn, Larry. "Toward a New Taxonomy for Pragmatic Inference: Q-Based and R-Based Implicature." In Meaning, Form, and Use in Context: Linguistic Applications. Edited by Deborah Schiffrin. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1984, pp. 11–42.

Horn, Larry. A Natural History of Negation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Hirschberg, Julia. "A Theory of Scalar Implicature." Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1985.

Green, Mitchell. "Quantity, Volubility, and Some Varieties of Discourse." Linguistics and Philosophy 18, 1 (1995): 83–112.

Matsumoto, Yo. "The Conversational Condition on Horn Scales." Linguistics and Philosophy 18, 1 (1995): 21–60.

1.3 Conditional Perfection

van der Auwera, Johan. "Pragmatics in the Last Quarter Century: The Case of Conditional Perfection." Journal of Pragmatics 27 (1997b): 261–274.

van der Auwera, Johan. "Conditional Perfection." In On Conditionals Again. Edited by A. Athanasiadou, and R. Dirven. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1997a, pp. 169–190.

Horn, Laurence R. "From if to iff: Conditional perfection as pragmatic strengthening." Journal of Pragmatics 32, 3 (2000): 289–326.

von Fintel, Kai. "Conditional Strengthening: A Case Study in Implicature." 2000.
http://web.mit.edu/fintel/www/condstrength.pdf.

1.4 Inclusive and Exclusive Disjunction

Hurford, J. R. "Exclusive or Inclusive Disjunction." Foundations of Language 11 (1974): 409–411.

Gazdar, Gerald. "Logical Functors." Chapter 4 in Pragmatics: Implicature, Presupposition and Logical Form. New York: Academic Press, 1979.

Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. "Or." Theoretical Linguistics 4 (1977): 61-74.

Zimmermann, Thomas, ed. "Free Choice Disjunction and Epistemic Possibility." Natural Language Semantics 8 (2000): 255–290.

Simons, Mandy. "Disjunction and Alternativeness." Linguistics and Philosophy 24 (2001): 597–619.

1.5 Defending the Material Implication Analysis of Conditionals

Jackson, Frank. "On Assertion and Indicative Conditionals." Philosophical Review 88 (1979): 565–589.

1.6 Numerals and Other Determiners

Horn, Laurence. "Scalarity and Suspension." Chapter 1 in "On the Semantic Properties of the Logical Operators in English." Ph.D. thesis, UCLA, 1972.

Kadmon, Nirit. "Indefinite NPs with Numerical Determiners." Chapter 4 in "On Unique and Non-Unique Reference and Asymmetric Quantification." Ph.D. thesis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1987.

Krifka, Manfred. "At least some determiners aren't determiners." In The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface from Different Points of View. Edited by Ken Turner. New York: Elsevier, 1999, 257-291.
http://amor.rz.hu-berlin.de/~h2816i3x/ATLEASTSOME.pdf

1.7 Syntactic Binding Conditions

Reinhart, Tanya. Anaphora and Semantic Interpretation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Levinson, Stephen. "Pragmatics and the Grammar of Anaphora: A Partial Reduction of Binding and Control Phenomena." Journal of Linguistics 23 (1987): 379-434.

Levinson, Stephen. "Pragmatic Reduction of the Binding Conditions Revisited." Journal of Linguistics 27 (1991): 107--161.

Fiengo, R. and R. May. "Anaphora and Identity." In The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory. Edited by Shalom Lappin. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.

1.8 Definite/Indefinite Contrast

Hawkins, J. "On (In)definite Articles: Implicatures and (Un)grammaticality Predictions." Journal of Linguistics 27 (1991): 405-442.

Heim, Irene. "Artikel und Definitheit." In Semantics: An International Handbook of Contemporary Research. Edited by Arnim von Stechow and Dieter Wunderlich. Berlin/New York: W. de Gruyter, 1991, pp. 487-535, Section 2.1.3 "Non-Uniqueness Condition."

1.9 Lexicalization

Horn, Laurence. "Conversational Constraints on Lexicalization." Chapter 4 in "On the Semantic Properties of the Logical Operators in English." Ph.D. thesis, UCLA, 1972.

McCawley, James. "Conversational Implicature and the Lexicon" (1978). In Syntax and Semantics 9: Pragmatics. Edited by Peter Cole. New York: Academic Press, 1978.

Kiparski, Paul. "Remarks on Denominal Verbs." In Complex Predicates. Edited by Alex Alsina, Joan Bresnan, and Peter Sells. Stanford, Calif.: CSLI Publications, 1997.

1.10 Life-Time Effects of Tenses

Musan, Renate. "Tense, Predicates, and Lifetime Effects." Natural Language Semantics 5, 3 (1997): 271–301.

1.11 Plurals, Reciprocals

Harnish, Robert. "Implicature and Logical Form" (1976). In Pragmatics: A Reader. Edited by Steven Davis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Kim, Yookyung, and Stanley Peters. "Semantic and Pragmatic Context-Dependence: The Case of Reciprocals." In Is the Best Good Enough? Optimality and cCmpetition in Syntax. Edited by Pilar Barbosa et al. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998, pp. 221-248.

Krifka, Manfred. "Pragmatic Strengthening in Plural Predications and Donkey Sentences." Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) VI. Rutgers University, April 26-28, 1996.
http://amor.rz.hu-berlin.de/~h2816i3x/SALT6.pdf

Winter, Yoad. "Plural Predication and the Strongest Meaning Hypothesis." Journal of Semantics 18 (2001): 333–365.

1.12 Ability Modals

Horn, Laurence. "Inferences, invited and forced." Section 2.15 in "On the Semantic Properties of the Logical Operators in English." Ph.D. thesis, UCLA, 1972, pp. 104ff.

Horn, Larry. "Toward a New Taxonomy for Pragmatic Inference: Q-Based and R-Based Implicature." In Meaning, Form, and Use in Context: Linguistic Applications. Edited by Deborah Schiffrin. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1984, pp. 11–42.

Bhatt, Rajesh. "Ability Modals and their Actuality Entailments." In Proceedings of the 17th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 17). Edited by Kimari Shahin et al. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 1998, pp. 74-87. [Also appears with minimal changes as chap. 5 of Bhatt, Rajesh. "Covert Modality in Non-Finite Contexts." Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1999.]

1.13 Adjectives and Scales

Atlas, Jay David. "Comparative Adjectives and Adverbials of Degree: An Introduction to Radically Radical Pragmatics." Linguistics and Philosophy 7 (1984): 347–377.

Kennedy, Christopher. "Polar Opposition and the Ontology of ‘Degrees'." Linguistics and Philosophy 24, 1 (2001): 33–70.

1.14 Required Information, Questions, Exhaustiveness

Groenendijk, Jeroen and Martin Stokhof. "On the Semantics of Questions and the Pragmatics of Answers" (chap. 4), and "Questions and Linguistic Answers" (chap. 5). In "Studies on the Semantics of Questions and the Pragmatics of Answers." Ph.D. thesis, University of Amsterdam, 1984.

Beck, Sigrid and Hotze Rullmann. "A Flexible Approach to Exhaustivity in Questions." Natural Language Semantics 7, 3 (1999): 249–298.

Reich, Ingo. "Wer Will Wann Wieviel Wissen? Eine Untersuchung verschiedener Frage-Antwort-Bedingungen im Deutschen." Arbeitspapiere des Sonderforschungsbereichs 340, Bericht Nr. 89, 1997.

van Kuppevelt, Jan. "Inferring from Topics: Scalar Implicatures as Topic-Dependent Inferences." Linguistics and Philosophy 19, 4 (1996): 393–443.

1.15 Pragmatics and Optimality Theory/Game Theory

Hendriks, Petra and Helen de Hoop. "Optimality Theoretic Semantics." Linguistics and Philosophy 24 (2001): 1–32.

van Rooy, Robert. "Conversational Implicatures and Communication Theory." In 2nd SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue - Aalborg. Denmark, September 1-2, 2001.
URL http://staff.science.uva.nl/~vanrooy/Sigdialbook.pdf.

Krifka, Manfred. "Be Brief and Vague! And how Bidirectional Optimality Theory allows for Verbosity and Precision." In Sounds and Systems. Studies in Structure and Change. A Festschrift for Theo Vennemann. Edited by David Restle and Dietmar Zaefferer. In series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 141. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002, pp. 439-458.
http://amor.rz.hu-berlin.de/~h2816i3x/VennemannFestschriftKrifka.pdf

1.16 Implicature in Acquisition

Noveck, Ira A. "When Children are More Logical than Adults: Experimental Investigations of Scalar Implicature." Cognition 78, 2 (2001): 165–188.

Papafragou, Anna and Julien Musolino. "Scalar Implicatures: Experiments at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface." IRCS Technical Reports, Nr. 01-15, University of Pennsylvania, 2001.
ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/ircs/tr/01-15/

1.17 Implicature Projection

Levinson, Stephen. "Intrusive Constructions." Section 3.3 in Presumptive Meanings: The Theory of Generalized Implicature. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.

Schwarz, Bernhard. "A Note on Exclusive Disjunction." Ms., MIT, 2000.

Chierchia, Gennaro. "Scalar Implicatures, Polarity Phenomena, and the Syntax/Pragmatics Interface." Forthcoming in Structures and Beyond. Edited by Adriana Belletti. Oxford University Press, 2004.

Gajewski, Jon. "Implicature Projection: Comments on Chierchia 2001." Ms., MIT, 2001.

Sauerland, Uli. "Scalar Implicatures in Complex Sentences." Ms., Universität Tübingen, 2001.
http://www2.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~uli/iRevised.pdf