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Author: Ahmed H. Alhuwayshil

Eleventh reading session (Final session)

Ahmed H. Alhuwayshil/ 21 April 202524 April 2025

Reading & discussing:

Situation pronouns in determiner phrases

Schwarz, F. Situation pronouns in determiner phrases. Nat Lang Semantics 20, 431–475 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-012-9086-1

 

Time: Monday 31st/March– 11:10 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Venue: F29/30 (7GS)

Apr 21, 2025
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Tenth reading session

Ahmed H. Alhuwayshil/ 3 March 2025

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
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Ninth reading session

Ahmed H. Alhuwayshil/ 20 February 202520 February 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
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Eighth reading session

Ahmed H. Alhuwayshil/ 10 February 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
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Seventh reading session

Ahmed H. Alhuwayshil/ 20 January 202520 January 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
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Sixth reading session

Ahmed H. Alhuwayshil/ 16 January 202516 January 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
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Fifth reading session

Ahmed H. Alhuwayshil/ 26 November 202426 November 2024

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
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Fourth reading session

Ahmed H. Alhuwayshil/ 17 November 202426 November 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
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