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Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States24.954
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2010English
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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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