Schedule
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[Week 16, W] Last day!!! 2011-05-04
Review for the final exam.
The final exam will be held on Thursday, May 12th at 11AM.
[Week 16, M] Presentations 2011-05-02
Collin on modals.
Jacob on tense (at last!)
Daeho on sarcasm. !
Lecture notes.
[Week 15, W] Presentations 2011-04-27
Amelia on "maybe".
Jin on inverse scope.
Stefan on surprise topic.
[Week 15, M] Presentations 2011-04-25
Will on Japanese honorifics.
Jeremy on verbal inflectional morphology.
Ryan on non-restrictive relatives.
[Week 14, W] Presentations 2011-04-20
Anak on verbal modifiers.
David on comparative constructions.
Hyomin on ellipsis.
[Week 14, M] Presentations 2011-04-18
No class today. But there is an assignment!
Assignment 8: Due next Mon, Apr. 25th.
[Week 13, W] Presentations 2011-04-13
Evan on indexicals and monsters.
Gabe on sentence particles in Cantonese.
Arianna on habitual "be" in AAVE.
[Week 13, M] More on Presupposition 2011-04-11
More on presupposition.
Jeep on questions.
Claire on Many Quantifiers.
[Week 12, W] Presupposition 2011-04-06
Solution to Assignment 7: Quantifiers in object position.
Presupposition.
[Week 12, M] Type shifting rules 2011-04-04
Type flexibility and type-shifting.
Generalized conjunction. Proper nouns as generalized quantifiers.
Assignment 7 due on Monday. See email. Read: Chapter 4, Section 4.4.
Lecture notes.
[Week 11, W] Predicate modification 2011-03-30
Predicate Modification. Lecture notes.
Mina on non-intersective adjectives.
Rebekah on negative concord.
Assignment 6 due on Monday. See lecture notes.
[Week 11, M] Functional application 2011-03-28
Functional application.
Lecture notes.
[Week 10, W] Pronouns again 2011-03-23
Bound vs. free pronouns and "only".
[Week 10, M] Quantifier Raising 2011-03-21
Presentation scheduling.
Quantifier Raising.
Read: H&K Chapters 1&2.
[Week 9, W] Spring Break 2011-03-17
No school!
[Week 9, M] Spring Break 2011-03-15
Spring Break.
[Week 8, W] Exam 1 2011-03-09
Exam 1.
Happy Spring Break!
[Week 8, M] Review 2011-03-07
Review for the exam.
Lecture notes. Exam 1 on Wednesday!
[Week 7, W] Pronouns 2011-03-02
More on relative clauses. Bound and free pronouns.
Lecture notes.
Assignment 5: Due Monday. See lecture notes from today.
Exam 1 next Wednesday!
[Week 7, M] Relative clauses 2011-02-28
More on subtypes of predicates: plurals, collective/distributive, stage-level/individual-level.
Relative clauses as nominal modifiers.
Lecture notes.
[Week 6, W] Scope ambiguities 2011-02-23
Scope ambiguities. Names as generalized quantifiers.
Lecture notes.
[Week 6, M] Quantifiers in object position 2011-02-16
Object quantifiers. Proper nouns as generalized quantifiers.
Start on scope ambiguities.
Lecture notes.
[Week 5, W] Quantifiers, cont'd 2011-02-16
Arguments vs. modifiers. More on generalized quantifiers.
Lecture notes.
Assignment 4: Due next Monday, see lecture notes.
[Week 5, M] Happy Valentine's 2011-02-14
No class!
[Week 4, W] Quantifiers 2011-02-09
Predicative DPs. Start on quantificational DPs.
Lecture notes, including practice derivations.
[Week 4, M] Transitives 2011-02-07
Transitives. Implicit arguments.
Lecture notes.
Assignment 3: Due next Monday, see today's lecture notes.
[Week 3, W] A mini-grammar of English 2011-02-02
Conjunction, negation.
Lecture notes.
Current grammar, as of the end of class.
Assignment 2: Due next Monday, wee today's lecture notes.
[Week 3, M] Set Theory 2011-01-31
Practice with set theory.
Start on a grammar of a fragment of English.
Lecture notes.
Reading: Partee 1995 (distributed in class).
[Week 2, W] Implicature 2011-01-26
More on implicature. Start: Set Theory.
Assignment 1 (due Wed): Read PtMW, Chapter 1, and do Exercises 1, 2, 6-8. Read: pp. 1-3, Heim & Kratzer.
Lecture notes.
[Week 2, M] Types of inferences 2011-01-24
Entailment. NPIs. Implicature.
Reading: Levinson, Chapter 3, up to Section 3.2, and Section 3.2.4 up to p. 135.
Lecture notes.
[Week 1, W] Introduction and course overview 2011-01-20
What is semantics?
Semantic competence and semantic intuitions.
Reading: (i) Meaning; (ii) Partee entry in the MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences.
Lecture notes.