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Graduate Program in Linguistics at the City University of New York

Ling 84600: Events

September 6, 2006 (Wednesday as Monday)

Read The first four chapters of Parsons (1990) (up to page 68). Click for the syllabus and Parsons handout (.pdf files). All readings are here (scanned into .pdf). If you don't know the password, email William McClure.

Setpebmer 11, 2006 (Monday)

Handout for Davidson 1967. Presentation by Li Ma. Class is moved from its original room to room 7102.

September 18, 2006 (Monday)

NO CLASS
Be reading up on theta roles: Parsons Chapter 6, Fillmore 1968, Jackendoff 1987, Dowty 1991, all here

September 25, 2006 (Monday)

Theta roles. Presentation by Jason Meilands.

October 3, 2006 (Tuesday as Monday)

More on theta roles from Jackendoff and Dowty. Here is the handout.

October 9, 2006 (Monday)

NO CLASS (Columbus Day).

October 16, 2006 (Monday)

Event ontology. Read Chapter 3 of Parsons and Vendler (1967), both here. Woan Jen Liing will present. Here is the handout.

October 23, 2006 (Monday)

Continue with event ontology. Begin the semantics (Dowty 1979).

October 30, 2006 (Monday)

Begin the semantics (Dowty 1979). The reading is in the normal place (or will be soon). The first part of the reading is actually about what we discussed last week, so start reading from page 71. Lucia Pozzan will be talking about CAUSE. Here is the handout. Small reminder. If you are planning on writing critiques, there are about three weeks left before something must be handed in.

November 6, 2006 (Monday)

Continue with the semantics (Dowty 1979). Move on to the progressive. Here is handout.