MM3, MM5: Clefting and Focus

Course schedule
Course Requirements
Literature

• 1. Introduction: Clefts

• 2. Syntax of it-Clefts
  (É. Kiss 1999, Percus 1997, Hedberg 2000)

• 3. Semantics of it-Clefts I: Existence & Uniqueness
  (Rooth 1996: 291-293, Percus 1997, Dufter (2009)

• 4. Interlude: Exhaustiveness in Hungarian (guest speaker: Edgar Onéa/ Stuttgart)
  (Szabolcsi 1981, Beaver & Onéa 2009)

• 5. The Semantics of it-Clefts II: Generalized Conversational Implicatures
  (Horn 1981)

• 6. Information Structure & Discourse Structure of it-Clefts
  (Delin & Oberlander 1995, Huber 2006)

• 7. Presupposition & Processing: Experimental approaches
  Delin (1990)

• 8. Exhaustiveness Effects in Clefts: EKP- and questionnaire experiments
  (Zimmermann & Drenhaus 2009, Onea & Beaver 2009)

• 9. Clefting: Some key experimental studies (Part 1)
  (Birch & Garnsey 1995, Birch & Rayner 1997, Foraker & McElree 2007)

• 10. Clefting: Some key experimental studies (Part 2)
  (Morris & Folk 1998, Ward & Sturt 2007); Clefting and anaphor resolution: Foraker & McElree 2007)

• 11. Clefting in Hindi: Theory and Experiments

• 12. Clefting in Salish
  (Davis et al. 2004)

• 13. Presentation of Projects/ Experiments