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David Beaver works primarily on the relationship between given and new information, as manifested in studies of focus, presupposition and anaphora. After his Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh, he spent several years in the Netherlands (with positions at the Universities of Amsterdam, Nijmegen and Tilburg) before taking up, in 1997, his present position as Assistant Professor of Linguistics on the faculty at Stanford University. Publications include Presupposition and Assertion in Dynamic Semantics (CSLI Publications, 2001), Always and Only: Why not all Focus Sensitive Operators are Alike (Natural Language Semantics 11(4), 2003, with Brady Clark) and The Optimization of Discourse Anaphora (Linguistics and Philosophy 27(1), 2004). His more light-hearted contributions to linguistics may sometimes be found on Language Log <http://www.languagelog.org>.

The Semantics and Pragmatics of Focus | LSA.129
TR 2:55-4:35
Three Week Course | First Session

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