Today we discussed questions and relative clauses and some other stuff. I assigned a landmark paper by Grice today, and I know it’s a little long, but trust me, you’re going to want to read this eventually in your linguistics career and/or life. It’s foundational. Easily ten times more important than Chomsky’s entire œuvre, and I mean that seriously.

Material From Today’s Class

PDFs

• Class Slides

Links

• WALS Map (Polar Question Strategies)
• WALS Map (Position of Polar Question Particles)

Assignments

Reading

• H. P. Grice “Logic and Conversation” [PDF]

Practice

• Today you got some new borrowed words! I want you to take them back, apply your sound changes to them (based on when you got the word), and post in #lexicon what they now mean in your language (plus where or who you got them from).

Mastery

• (None Today)

Backburner

• MA7 on word order, valency, relative clauses, and questions (a bit).
• Still looking at MA8.
• Keep looking at your final assignment.