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Schedule
[Week 16, W] Presentations
2010-05-05
Joel: Reflexive verbs in Hebrew.
Emery: Degree words.
Exam 2.
Emery: Degree words.
Exam 2.
[Week 16, M] Presentations
2010-05-03
Karen: Tense.
Kali: Questions.
Kristen: Negation and telicity in Russian.
Kali: Questions.
Kristen: Negation and telicity in Russian.
[Week 15, W] Presentations
2010-04-28
Vivian: The meaning of too.
David: Event semantics.
Blendia: Pronouns in Chinese.
David: Event semantics.
Blendia: Pronouns in Chinese.
[Week 15, M] Review
2010-04-26
[Week 14, W] Reflexives
2010-04-20
Reflexives.
Lecture notes.
Lecture notes.
[Week 14, M] Pronouns
2010-04-19
Bound and referential pronouns.
Lecture notes.
Lecture notes.
[Week 13, W] Review
2010-04-14
Review so far. Crossover examples.
Lecture notes.
Assignment 7.
Lecture notes.
Assignment 7.
[Week 13, M] Quantifier raising
2010-04-12
Quantifier raising.
[Week 12, W] Relative clauses
2010-04-07
Relative clauses. Traces as variables.
Assignment 6: Distributed in class.
Lecture notes.
Assignment 6: Distributed in class.
Lecture notes.
[Week 12, M] Pronouns
2010-04-05
Presupposition (determiners).
Pronouns as variables.
Lecture notes.
Assignment 6: Assigned in class.
Pronouns as variables.
Lecture notes.
Assignment 6: Assigned in class.
[Week 11, W] Definite descriptions
2010-03-31
The definite determiner. Presupposition.
Reading: Chapter 5.
Reading: Chapter 5.
[Week 11, M] Quantifiers
2010-03-29
Quantifiers in the new system. Subject and object.
Type-shifting rules.
Type-shifting rules.
[Week 10, W] Functional application
2010-03-24
Functional application.
Lecture notes.
Lecture notes.
[Week 10, M] Scope ambiguities
2010-03-22
Quantifier scope ambiguities.
Lecture notes.
Lecture notes.
[Week 8, W] EXAM 1!
2010-03-10
Exam 1.
[Week 8, M] Review
2010-03-08
Review for the exam.
[Week 7, W] Object quantifiers
2010-03-03
Quantificational DPs in object position.
Lecture notes.
Lecture notes.
[Week 7, M] Types of predicates
2010-03-01
Types of predicates (stage-level vs. individual-level).
Conservativity.
Practice derivations.
Conservativity.
Practice derivations.
[Week 6, W] Arguments vs. Modifiers
2010-02-24
Arguments vs. Modifiers.
Start on quantifiers in object position.
Lecture notes.
Start on quantifiers in object position.
Lecture notes.
[Week 6, M] Generalized Quantifiers
2010-02-22
Generalized quantifiers.
[Week 5, W] DPs and Quantification
2010-02-17
DPs; review; start on quantification.
[Week 5, M] No class
2010-02-15
No class today. Happy studying!
[Week 4, W] Transitives
2010-02-10
Transitives. Implicit arguments.
Revised grammar as of the end of class.
Revised grammar as of the end of class.
[Week 4, M] More of English
2010-02-08
Conjunction, negation, transitive verbs as relations.
[Week 3, W] Class grammar
2010-02-03
A fragment of a grammar of English. Assignment 2.
Reading: Chapter 1, H&K, up to Section 1.3.3.
Reading: Chapter 1, H&K, up to Section 1.3.3.
[Week 3, M] Set theory practice
2010-02-01
Review: Practice with Set Theory.
[Week 2, W] Set theory
2010-01-27
Practice with identifying types of inferences.
Set Theory.
Assignment 1: Read PtMW Chapter 1, Do Exercises 1,2, 6-8.
Set Theory.
Assignment 1: Read PtMW Chapter 1, Do Exercises 1,2, 6-8.
[Week 2, M] Types of inferences
2010-01-25
Types of inferences: Entailment vs. Implicature.
Downward entailing contexts.
The meaning of and and or.
Downward entailing contexts.
The meaning of and and or.
[Week 1, W] Introduction and course overview
2010-01-20
What is semantics? Semantic competence and semantic intuitions.
Readings: (i) Meaning; (ii) Optional: Partee entry in the MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences.
Readings: (i) Meaning; (ii) Optional: Partee entry in the MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences.