[Week 1, Tu] Introduction and Course Overview 2007-09-04
What is semantics? Why study semantics?
Semantic competence and semantic intuitions.
Lecture notes.

Readings: (i) Meaning; (ii) Meaning of Language (pp. 1-6); (iii) Levinson: Chapter 3, up to page 134, but skip Sections 3.2.2 and 3.2.3.
[Week 1, Th] Types of Inferences 2007-09-06
Entailment, implicature, and presupposition. Scale reversal.
Lecture notes.

Homework: Assignment 1.
[Week 2, Tu] More on Implicature 2007-09-11
More on implicature. Inclusive vs. exclusive 'or'.
Lecture notes.

Reading (for this Thursday, 9/6): Presupposition (from Portner 2004).
[Week 2, Th] Presupposition 2007-09-13
Presupposition vs. assertion. Projection tests.
Context and common ground.
Lecture notes.

Homework: Assignment 2 (due 9/20): Read PtMW, Chapter 1, and do Exercises 1, 2, 6-8.
[Week 3, Tu] Set Theory 2007-09-18
Basics of set theory.
Lecture notes (with answers to the set theory exercises).
Solution to Assignment 1.
[Week 3, Th] More on Set Theory 2007-09-20
Practice with set theory. Truth conditions and compositionality.
Lecture notes (revised without typos).
Solution to Assignment 2.

Homework: Assignment 3.
[Week 4, Tu] Truth-Conditional Semantics 2007-09-25
Deriving truth-conditions. A grammar of a small fragment of English. Predication and conjunction.
Lecture notes (revised without typos).
[Week 4, Th] Review 2007-09-27
Review for the exam. Negation. Or as set theoretic union.
Lecture notes.
Solution to Assignment 3.

Homework: Assignment 4.
[Week 5, Tu] Exam 1 2007-10-02
Exam 1, in class.
[Week 5, Th] Negative Polarity 2007-10-04
Negative Polarity Items and There-Existentials.
Copular constructions.
[Week 6, Tu] Transitive Verbs 2007-10-9
Transitive verbs.
More on copular constructions.
Lecture Notes.

Solution to Exam 1.
Solution to Assignment 4.
[Week 6, Th] Transitive P's and A's 2007-10-11
Transitive P's and A's.
Implicit arguments.
Lecture Notes.

Homework: Assignment 6.
[Week 7, Tu] DPs, Implicit Arguments 2007-10-16
Predicative DPs: intransitive and transitive N's.
More on implicit arguments.
Lecture Notes.
[Week 7, Th] More of English 2007-10-18
Conjunction. Stage- and individual-level predicates.
A start on quantifiers as relations between sets.
Lecture Notes.
Solution to Assignment 6.

Homework: Assignment 7.
[Week 8, Tu] Quantifiers 2007-10-23
Quantifiers in subject position. Generalized quantifiers.
Lecture Notes.
[Week 8, Th] More on Quantifiers 2007-10-25
Proper Nouns as generalized quantifiers. Conjunction.
Lecture Notes.
Solution to Assignment 7.

Homework: Assignment 8.
[Week 9, Tu] PP Modifiers 2007-10-30
Review so far.
PP modifiers within DP (e.g., Every dog near Tro barked).
[Week 9, Th] AP Modifiers 2007-11-01
AP modifiers within DP (e.g., Every gray dog barked).
Lecture Notes.
Solution to Assignment 8.
[Week 10, Tu] Exam 2 2007-11-06
Exam 2.
[Week 10, Th] Relative clauses 2007-11-08
Relative clauses as modifiers.
Lecture Notes.

Homework: Assignment 9: Do the Bonus section of Exam 2. The Extra Credit is optional.
[Week 11, Tu] Variables 2007-11-13
Pronouns. Referential vs. bound variable pronouns.
Variable assignments.
Lecture Notes.
[Week 11, Th] More on Pronouns 2007-11-15
More on referential vs. bound variable pronouns.
Lecture Notes.
Solution to Assignment 9.

Homework: Assignment 10.
[Week 12, Tu] Relative Clauses 2007-11-20
Interpreting relative clauses.
Lecture Notes.
[Week 12, Th] Quantifier Raising 2007-11-23
Quantifier Raising.
Lecture Notes.
Solution to Assignment 10.

Homework: Assignment 11.
[Week 13, Tu] Quantifier Raising 2007-11-27
Quantifier Raising and pronouns: deriving bound variable readings.
Lecture Notes.
[Week 13, Th] Last words 2007-11-29
Review of deriving bound variable readings. Reflexives.
Wrap-up and review.
Lecture Notes.
Solution to Assignment 11, including the Extra Credit derivations.

THE FINAL EXAM!!!