For Friday September 5, please read (in decreasing order of importance): ===================================================== 1. Heim & Kratzer: Chapter 1 (12pp) > on the foundations of semantics 2. Grice: Logic and Conversation (18pp) > on implicatures 3. Stalnaker: Pragmatic Presuppositions (12pp) > on presupposition. NB: Stalnaker uses > "entails" differently from how we do and uses > "necessitates" the way we use "entails". **Note that this list differs from the handout** ===================================================== Readings are uploaded as pdfs in the /pdfs/ directory where they're listed alphabetically by author. I've included the reading for next week, along with a few other textbooks that you might find useful (these are *not* required reading!). Here is some more info on the textbooks: 1. Allwood et al: we'll be working through this next week. Good, reasonably leisurely intro to the formal concepts we'll be relying on. 2. Carpenter: a useful reference for folks who are interested in categorial grammar and alternative approaches to the syntax-semantics interface. 3. Dowty et al: a book-length exegesis of Montague's PTQ (where it all began). 4. Gamut: an fine introduction to semantics, geared more towards logicians. Distinctly Dutch. 5. Partee et al: a classic "introductory" text, much heavier on formalism than what we'll be doing. 6. Sider: much more on formal logic, geared towards philosophers. The folder named /ZZZZ/ has a bunch of other pdfs. Future readings will be drawn from there, but we won't read all or even many of the papers there.