Schedule
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[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.
[Week 7, M] Types of predicates 2010-03-01
Types of predicates (stage-level vs. individual-level).
Conservativity.
Practice derivations.
[Week 6, W] Arguments vs. Modifiers 2010-02-24
Arguments vs. Modifiers.
Start on quantifiers in object position.
Lecture notes.
[Week 6, M] Generalized Quantifiers 2010-02-22
Generalized quantifiers.
Lecture notes.
[Week 5, W] DPs and Quantification 2010-02-17
DPs; review; start on quantification.
Lecture notes.
[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.
[Week 4, M] More of English 2010-02-08
Conjunction, negation, transitive verbs as relations.
Lecture notes.
Class grammar, 2/11.
[Week 3, W] Class grammar 2010-02-03
A fragment of a grammar of English.
Lecture notes.
Assignment 2.
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.
Lecture notes.
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.
Lecture notes.
[Week 1, W] Introduction and course overview 2010-01-20
What is semantics? Semantic competence and semantic intuitions.
Lecture notes.
Readings: (i) Meaning; (ii) Optional: Partee entry in the MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences.