Resources
Submit Coursework (HW7 due 04/16)
Supplemental Reading:
Chierchia & McConnell-Ginet 2000
Coppock & Champollion 2023
Heim & Kratzer 1998
Portner 2005
Tree Drawing:
Tree Form (Freeware)
Syntactic Tree Designer (Freeware)
Syntax Tree Generator (Applet)
Overleaf (Online LaTeX editor)
qtree (LaTeX package)
tree-dvips (LaTeX package)
Converting trees to brackets
Week 16 : April 15 – April 19
Review for Final
Week 15 : April 8 – April 12
Phi-Features and Pronominal Meaning
Handout: Lecture 21
Reading: HK (242-245)
Assignment: HW7
Week 14 : April 1 – April 5
Pronouns and Variable Assignments
Handout: Lecture 20
Reading: HK (110-112)
Week 13 : March 25 – March 29
The Semantics of Logical Disjunction
Handout: Lecture 19
Reading: CMG (239-255)
Deriving Some (but not all) Implicatures
Handout: Lecture 18
Reading: CMG (239-255)
Assignment: HW6
Week 12 : March 18 – March 22
Gricean Theory
Handout: Lecture 17
Reading: CMG (239-255)
Implicational Meanings
Handout: Lecture 16
Reading: CMG (239-255)
Week 11 : March 11 – March 15
Quantifiers
Handout: Lecture 15
Reading: HK (145-147, 153-162)
Quantificational DPs
Handout: Lecture 14
Reading: HK (131-138)
Week 10 : March 4 – March 8
The Uniqueness Presupposition
Handout: Lecture 13
Reading: HK (75-82)
Assignment: HW5
Definite Descriptions
Handout: Lecture 12
Reading: HK (73-75)
Week 9 : February 26 – March 1
Winter Break
Week 8 : February 19 – February 23
Midterm
Review for Midterm
Week 7 : February 13 – February 17
Intersective and Subsective Adjectives
Handout: Lecture 11
Reading: HK (67-73)
Adjectival Modification
Handout: Lecture 10
Reading: HK (63-67)
Week 6 : February 5 – February 9
Common Nouns
Handout: Lecture 09
Reading: HK (61-63)
Assignment: HW4
Adjectival Predicates
Handout: Lecture 08
Reading: HK (34-39, 61-63)
Week 5 : January 29 – February 2
Transitive Verbs
Handout: Lecture 07
Reading: HK (26-29)
Deriving Truth Conditions
Handout: Lecture 06
Reading: HK (13-23)
Assignment: HW3
Week 4 : January 22 – January 26
No Class Thursday
No Class Tuesday
Week 3 : January 15 – January 19
Compositional Semantics
Handout: Lecture 05
Reading: HK (13-20)
Assignment: HW2
Basics of Set Theory and Functions
Handout: Lecture 04
Reading: HK (1-12)
Week 2 : January 8 – January 12
Truth-Conditional Meaning
Handout: Lecture 03
Dimensions of Meaning
Handout: Lecture 02
Assignment: HW1, Join Google Classroom
Reading: CMG (17-33)
Week 1 : January 1 – January 5
Semantics as Cognitive Science
Handout: Lecture 01
Assignment: HW1, Join Google Classroom
Reading: CMG (1-17)
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