Semantics and pragmatics reading group, 2025-26.
The Semantics and Pragmatics RG 2025-26 will meet every 3-4 weeks, starting on Monday November 24, 14h-16h. On Zoom.
As in previous years, the reading list will be agreed upon and updated as we go along.
Initial list of readings:
Drainville, Ray, and Jennifer Saul, ‘Visual and Linguistic Dogwhistles’, in Ernie Lepore, and Luvell Anderson (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language, Oxford Handbooks (2024). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192844118.013.4
Liebesman, David, and Ofra Magidor, Property Versatility and Copredication (Oxford, 2025). Chapters 8 and 9.
Viebahn, E. (2020), Lying with Presuppositions. Noûs, 54: 731-751. https://doi-org.sire.ub.edu/10.1111/nous.12282
Bassi, Itai ; Del Pinal, Guillermo & Sauerland, Uli (2021). Presuppositional exhaustification. Semantics and Pragmatics 14:1-42.
Khoo, J. (2025). Judging for ourselves. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 110, 757–788. https://doi-org.sire.ub.edu/10.1111/phpr.13133
Lelia Glass, Using the Anna Karenina Principle to explain why cause favors negative-sentiment complements, Semantics & Pragmatics Volume 16, Article 6: 1–49, 2023
Alexander Dinges, Julia Zakkou, On Deniability, Mind, Volume 132, Issue 526, April 2023, Pages 372–401, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzac056
Simons, Mandy, Judith Tonhauser, David Beaver, and Craige Roberts. (2010). What Projects and Why. In Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 20, 309–27.
