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Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory
Art: Italian illuminator, Boethius initial consolation philosophy, 1385 · Public domain
- Instructors
- Prof. Daniel Fox, Prof. Paula Menéndez-Benito
- Term
- Fall 2006
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 18 other files · 2 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
Other versions of this course
- 24.954 · Spring 2010 · Study here
- 24.954 · Fall 2006 · Study here (this version)
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 24.954 Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory, Fall 2006, Prof. Daniel Fox, Prof. Paula Menéndez-Benito — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
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Lecture Notes
17 files
- What is pragmatics? Download
- Embedded implicatures Download
- More on implicatures Download
- Implicatures and contradictions Download
- Back to disjunction Download
- Implicatures and common knowledge Download
- Questions and pragmatics Download
- More on questions and exhaustivity Download
- Gajewski on demand Download
- Too many alternatives: Density, symmetry, and other predicaments Download
- Kratzer on “exclusive questions” part 1 Download
- Kratzer part 2 Download
- Notes on presupposition Download
- Presupposition (cont.) Download
- Schlenker Download
- Florian Schwarz: “Processing presupposed content” and beyond Download
- Proviso problem Download
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MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Daniel Fox, Prof. Paula Menéndez-Benito, 24.954 Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory, Fall 2006.
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