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Semantics Syllabus |
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Course Outline |
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Linguistics 525 |
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Day |
Reading |
Assignment |
Lecture |
Background |
| Mon Jan 23 | Seneca kinship assignment | Semantics universals, semantics, and word meaning | Frame semantics: A non-universalist approach | |
| Mon Jan 30 | Chapter 1 Kearns. Meaning. Denotations. Possible worlds. Truth conditions. Compositional semantics. | Assignment two Assignment: Intensions, Extensions, and Compositionality Kearns Ch. 1, p.20, Excercise 3 | Invitation to semantics | Bibliography |
| Mon Feb 06 | Chapter 1. ctd. Simple theories of syntax/semantics interface . Intensions & Semantic rules. Chapter 2. Propositional logic. English sentential conectives: and, or, if (then), only if, unless. Relations. Logical Form: Translating English into logic. | Assignment: Kearns (chapter 2) 1[a,d,f,h]; 2, 6, 9[all],11[a,b,c,d,e,g],12[a], 15[all] | Intensions & Semantic rules. Intro to logic Logic trees Predicate logic Logic tutorial | |
| Mon Feb 13 | Chapter 2, 3. Propositional logic ctd. | Assignment: Translation assignment. | ||
| Mon Feb 20 | Chapter 3. The logical quantifiers. Translating English into logic. Quantifier scope ambiguities. Negation. | Assignment: Kearns (chapter 3) p. 55-56, 1 [all];2[a,b,c,d,e]; 3[a,d,f],4[a,b] | Predicate logic | |
| Mon Feb 27 | Chapter 5. Modality; possible worlds again; necessity, possibility; deontic and epistemic modality. | Modality assignment | Modality and possible worlds. Possible worlds analysis of conditionals, Logic notes (pdf, html) Logical Form tutorial | |
| Mon Mar 05 | Chapter 6. Quantifiers. First order quantifiers. Generalized quantifiers. Skip 6.10, Carefully read Section 6.9 (Negative polarity items). | Assignment: Kearns (chapter 6) 1 [a,c], 2[a,b,d,e,f,g,h,i,j],3[a,b],4[a],5[all] | Quantification, Interpreting logic. | |
| Mon Mar 12 | Chapter 6. Definites, indefinites, and groups. Strong vs. weak. | Definites and Indefinites assignment. | Definite descriptions. Indefinites groups | |
| Mon Mar 19 | Assignments: Old Midterm. Old Midterm answers translation tutorial II General logic help | |||
| Mon Mar 26 | H'day | H'day | H'day | H'day |
| Mon Apr 02 | Chapter 8. Aspectual classes. | Aspect assignment. | Lecture | |
| Mon Apr 09 | Chapter 9. Tense. English tenses. The progressive. The English perfect. Reichenbach's analysis. | Assignment: Kearns (chapter 9) 2,4,5,6,7, 8 | Tenses | |
| Mon Apr 16 | Chapter 10. Thematic roles. Thematic role hierarchy. Lexical Conceptual Structure. | Roles and LCS assignment. | Thematic roles, perception, cognition, Lexical Conceptual structure. | |
| Mon Apr 23 | Chapter 11. Events. Adverbial modification. | Assignment: Kearns (chapter 11) 1,2,3,4,6,7 | Lecture | |
| Mon Apr 30 | Chapter 1. Implicature and presupposition. | Assignment: Kearns (chapter 1) 4,5, 8, 10 | Grice, presupposition, implicature and scales | |
| Mon May 07 | Chapter 1 - 10. Review. |