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Week 1 (1/21): Alternatives for indefinites, questions, and focus
- Handout.
- Enrolled students: start thinking about which readings you would like to present.
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Week 2 (1/28): The scope of indefiniteness
- Handout.
- Primary reading: Reinhart 1997, Szabolcsi 2010 (Ch. 7), Schwarz 2001.
- Supplementary reading: Winter 1997, Kratzer 1998, Schwarzschild 2002, Brasoveanu & Farkas 2011.
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Week 3 (2/4): Alternatives and the scope of
indefiniteness
- Primary reading: Kratzer 2005, Shimoyama 2006.
- Supplementary reading: Nishigauchi 1990, Kratzer & Shimoyama 2002, Kim 2003, Szabolcsi 2014.
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Week 4 (2/11): Composing questions
- Handouts: Law on Krifka, Kinjo on Heim, Chen on Heim.
- Primary reading: Krifka 2011, Heim notes.
- Supplementary reading: Hamblin 1973, Karttunen 1977.
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Week 5 (2/18): Questions at the interface
- Handouts: Me on pied-piping, Sağ on Hagstrom.
- Primary reading: Hagstrom 1998 (Ch. 5), Sternefeld 2001a, Dayal forthcoming (Ch. 7).
- Supplementary reading: Stechow 1996, Cable 2010.
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Week 6 (2/25): Compositional issues with
alternatives
- Handouts: Me on binding, Das on Romero & Novel.
- Primary reading: Shan 2004, Romero & Novel 2013.
- Supplementary reading: Ciardelli & Roelofsen to appear.
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Week 7 (3/4): The scope of focus
- Handout.
- Primary reading: Rooth 1996, Krifka 2006.
- Supplementary reading: Rooth 1985, Wold 1996.
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Week 8 (3/11): Introducing dynamics
- Handout, Interactive PLA calculator (Haskell source), and a version of that works in your browser, courtesy of Dylan Bumford.
- Primary reading: Charlow 2014 (Section 2.4), Dekker 1994.
- Supplementary reading: Heim 1983, Groenendijk & Stokhof 1991, another PLA calculator.
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Week 9 (3/25): Disjunction — dynamics,
alternatives
- Handout.
- Primary reading: Stone 1992, Simons 2005, Groenendijk & Roelofsen 2009.
- Supplementary reading: Rooth & Partee 1982, Zimmermann 2000, Schlenker 2006, Alonso-Ovalle 2006.
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Week 10 (4/1): Alternatives via scope
- Handout.
- Primary reading: Partee 1986, Charlow SALT25 abstract.
- Supplementary reading: Charlow 2014 (Chapter 2), Wadler 1995, Shan 2002.
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Week 11 (4/8): Semantic reconstruction &
higher-order alternatives
- Handout.
- Primary reading: Cresti 1995, Sternefeld 2001b [think of these as *background* reading, but please do have a look].
- Supplementary reading: Chierchia 1995 (Ch. 3), Barker 2007, Kobele 2010, Kennedy 2014.
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Week 12 (4/15): Dynamic alternatives, functional exceptional scope
- Bumford handout.
- Primary reading: Bumford to appear.
- Supplementary reading: Krifka 2001, Brasoveanu 2011 (Sections 1 & 2), Schlenker 2006.
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Week 13 (4/22): Generalized exceptional scope (Pt I)
- Handout.
- Optional reading: Charlow 2014 (Section II) [focus on the empirical bits].
- Week 14 (4/29): Presentations, Generalized exceptional scope (Pt II)