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ling510  
angelika kratzer
(lectures)
jan anderssen
(lab sessions)
  office hrs mtthf 11.30-1
email / webpage
office hrs m 1-2
email / webpage / aol online status
  spring 2005
mwf 10.10 - 11
lab t 4 - 4.50
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week # (class and lab dates)
this weeks’ items / agenda “book of the week”
week 16 - conference week 3, last week of classes
week 15 - conference week 2
week 14 - conference week 1
week 13 (4/19, 4/20, 4/22)
Paul Newman and Martha Ratliff (eds.) (2001): Linguistic Fieldwork. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA.
week 12 (4/11, 4/12, 4/13, 4/15)
Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine (2000): Vanishing Voices. The Extinction of the World's Languages. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
week 11 (4/4, 4/5, 4/6, 4/8)
Carlson, Greg N. and Francis Jeffry Pelletier, eds. (1995): The Generic Book. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
week 10 (3/28, 3/29, 3/30, 4/1)
Levinson, Stephen C. (2000): Presumptive meanings: the theory of generalized conversational implicature. MIT Press, Cambridge MA. Available online through NetLibrary and MIT CogNet.
week 9 (3/21, 3/22, 3/23, 3/25)
Marc Hauser (1996): The Evolution of Communication. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
week 8 (spring break)
  Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi (2000): The Dictionary of Imaginary Places. Harcourt, San Diego.
week 7 (3/7, 3/8, 3/9, 3/11)
Michel DeGraff, ed. (1999): Language Creation and Language Change: Creolization, Diachrony and Development. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
week 6 (2/28, 3/1, 3/2, 3/4)
Elisabeth O. Selkirk (1984): Phonology and Syntax: The Relation between Sound and Structure. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
week 5 (2/22, 2/23, 2/25)
Christopher Potts (2004): The Logic of Conventional Implicatures. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
week 4 (2/14, 2/15, 2/16, 2/18)
Susan Goldin-Meadow (2003): How Our Hands Help Us Think. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA.
week 3 (2/7, 2/8, 2/9, 2/11)
Morten H. Christiansen and Simon Kirby, eds. (2003): Language Evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
week 2 (1/31, 2/1, 2/2, 2/4)
Paul Bloom (2000): How Do Children Learn The Meaning Of Words. MIT Press, Cambridge Mass. Available through MIT CogNet.
week 1 (1/26, 1/28)