The New York Institute of Cognitive and Cultural Studies
Session 2: Controlling the Discourse

information structuring resources

Julia Hirschberg's research
Journal of Pragmatics
Language Log
Linguistics and Philosophy
semantics etc. (Kai von Fintel)
semanticsarchive.net
Gregory Ward's papers

My talk for the Linguistics Miniconference (July 15, 2004):

Intonational meaning beyond the F-marking system (83 KB)

Meeting time: July 19 - July 30
MWF, 4:10pm - 5:25pm
Instructor: Christopher Potts
Department of Linguistics
UMass Amherst

class notes and readings

  • The class notes: PDF (1.6 MB)

  • The BIBTEX file for the class notes

  • Ward, Gregory and Betty Birner. 2004. Information structure and non-canonical syntax. In Laurence R. Horn and Gregory Ward, eds., The Handbook of Pragmatics, 153--174. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. PDF (1.02 MB) [required]

  • Bailyn, John Frederick. 2002. Inversion, dislocation and optionality in Russian. In G. Zybatov, U. Junghanns, G. Mehlhorn, and L. Szucsich, eds., Current Issues in Formal Slavic Linguistics (FDSL 3), 280-293. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. PDF (91 KB) [recommended]

  • Kehler, Andrew and Gregory Ward. 2004. Constraints on ellipsis and event reference. In Laurence R. Horn and Gregory Ward, eds., The Handbook of Pragmatics, 383--403. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. PDF (1 MB) [recommended]

  • Wolf, Florian and Ted Gibson. 2003. The descriptive inadequacy of trees for representing discourse coherence. Ms., MIT. PDF (243 KB) [recommended]

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