Reading & discussing:

McKenzie, A. Austinian situations and switch-reference.

https://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/zliMGYxM/McKenzie-situations-SR.pdf

 

Time: Monday 17th/March– 11:10 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Venue: S38 (7GS)

Mar 3, 2025

Reading & discussing:

Zweig, E. When the donkey lost its fleas: persistence, minimal situations, and embedded quantifiers. Nat Lang Semantics 14, 283–296 (2006).

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-006-9003-6

 

Time: Monday 3rd/March– 11:10 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Venue: S38 (7GS)

Feb 20, 2025

Reading & discussing:

Bochnak, M.R. Past time reference in a language with optional tense. Linguist and Philos 39, 247–294 (2016).

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-016-9191-6

 

Time: Monday 17th/February – 11:10 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Venue: S38 (7GS)

Feb 10, 2025

Reading & discussing:

Dieuleveut, A. (2023) ‘can you see? actuality entailments in the present’, Journal of Semantics, 40(2–3), pp. 503–522.

doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffad011

 

Time: Monday 3rd/February – 11:10 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Venue: S38 (7GS)

Jan 20, 2025

Reading & discussing:

Anand, P. and Hacquard, V. (2013a) ‘Epistemics and attitudes’, Semantics and Pragmatics, 6.

https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.6.8

 

Time: Monday 20th January– 11:00 a.m. – 12:00p.m.

Venue: S38 (7GS)

Jan 16, 2025

Reading & discussing:

Klinedinst, N., & Rothschild, D. (2011). Exhaustivity in questions with non-factives. Semantics and Pragmatics, 4(2), 1–23.

https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.4.2

 

Time: 9th December – 11:00 a.m. – 12:00p.m.

Venue: 7.01 (DSB)

Nov 26, 2024

Reading & discussing:

Fine, K. (2012). Counterfactuals Without Possible Worlds. The Journal of Philosophy, 109(3), 221–246.

The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 109, No. 3 (MARCH 2012), pp. 221-246 (26 pages). https://www.jstor.org/stable/43820699

 

Time: 25th Nov – 11:10 a.m. – 12:00p.m.

Venue: 7.01 (DSB)

Nov 17, 2024

Reading & discussing:

Maier (2018), a chapter in the The Oxford Handbook of Lying that compares lying and acts of fiction under a semantic & pragmatic framework.

Maier, E. (2018). Lying and Fiction. In J. Meibauer (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Lying (1st ed., pp. 303–314). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198736578.013.23

Time: 11th Nov – 11:10 a.m. – 12:00a.m.

Venue: 7.01 (DSB)

Oct 30, 2024

Reading & discussing:

Bonomy & Zucchi (2003), a semantic analysis of propositions in works of fiction.

Bonomi, A., & Zucchi, S. (2003). A Pragmatic Framework for Truth in Fiction. Dialectica, 57(2), 103–120. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1746-8361.2003.tb00259.x

Time: 28th Oct – 11:10 a.m. – 12:00a.m.

Venue: 7.01 (DSB)

Oct 19, 2024

Discussing:

Geurts (to appear) which is about the interaction between speech acts and common ground.

Geurts, B. (to appear). Common ground in pragmatics. Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375792392_Common_ground_in_pragmatics>

Time: 14th Oct – 11:10 a.m. –  12:00a.m.

Venue: 7.01 (DSB)

 

Oct 1, 2024