One more semantics teacher & preliminary semantics topics

Morwenne Hoeks will join the semantics line-up in week 2.

And here are some preliminary topics for semantic classes (stay tuned for more):

  • Ashwini Deo & David Beaver: Speech act and force modifying discourse particles (possibly also response particles) (week 1)
  • Jon Ander Mendia & Rajesh Bhatt: Introduction to semantics (week 1)
  • Jon Ander Mendia & Rajesh Bhatt: Degrees (week 1)
  • Tom Roberts: Attitudes (week 1 and maybe also week 2, or another topic for one of the weeks)
  • Morwenna Hoeks: Interpreting focus: Bridging theory and incremental measures (week 2)
  • Nina Haslinger: Structural complexity in formal pragmatics (week 2)
  • Jon Ander Mendia: Introduction to intensional semantics (week 2)

Phono classes

We have a fifth phonologist on board, Jason Bishop (CUNY). Below are the titles of the phono classes. Veno Volenc’ course descriptions are online, as well as the description of Kyle Gorman’s exceptionality class: check out the classes page. More to come…

Kyle Gorman: 1. Exceptionality, 2. Phonotactics

Charles Reiss: 1. Phonology and cognitive science (intro) 2. Overview of Substance Free Logical Phonology

Veno Volenec 1. Introduction to Generative Phonology (excluding autosegmental structure), 2. Neurobiology of Language and Speech 

Katalin Balogné-Bérces: 1. Classical and current models of autosegmental phonology, 2. Laryngeal realism/relativism

Jason Bishop: 1. Introduction to Intonational Phonology (intro), 2. tba