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24.954 Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory
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Graduate (Spring)
Prereq: Permission of instructor
Units: 3-0-9
Lecture: F9.30-12 (32-D461)
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Formal theories of context-dependency, presupposition, implicature, context-change, focus and topic. Special emphasis on the division of labor between semantics and pragmatics. Applications to the analysis of quantification, definiteness, presupposition projection, conditionals and modality, anaphora, questions and answers.
D. Fox
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