Course info

This is the site for the class "Variable costs" taught by David Beaver and Kai von Fintel at ESSLLI 2019.

Core readings

Beaver, David and Kai von Fintel. 2013. Notes on strong contextual felicity and free variables. ms.
Beaver, David and Kai von Fintel. 2015. Variable costs. Slides from an invited talk at the Universität Göttingen.
King, Jeffrey C. 2018. Strong contextual felicity and felicitous underspecification. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 97(3). 631–657. doi:10.1111/phpr.12393.

Miller, Philip and Geoffrey K. Pullum. 2013. Exophoric VP Ellipsis. In Philip Hofmeister and Elisabeth Norcliffe (eds.), The Core and the Periphery: Data-driven Perspectives on Syntax Inspired by Ivan A. Sag. CSLI Publications.
Partee, Barbara H. 1989. Binding implicit variables in quantified contexts. Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 25. 342--365.
Tonhauser, Judith, David Beaver, Craige Roberts & Mandy Simons. 2013. Towards a taxonomy of projective content. Language 89(1). 66--109. doi:10.1353/lan.2013.0001.
Tonhauser, Judith. 2015. Are "informative presuppositions" presuppositions? Language and Linguistics Compass 9(2). 77--101. doi:10.1111/lnc3.12119.
Stanley, Jason. 2000. Context and logical form. Linguistics and Philosophy 23(4). 391--434. doi:10.1023/A:1005599312747.
Harris, Daniel. 2019. Semantics without semantic content. Forthcoming in Mind and Language.