Final: 12/19 9am-11am KCB 102
Not too long ago, the final exams schedules were made available. The LX502 final will be Tuesday, December 19, from 9am to 11am in the regular classroom, KCB 102.
Archive of entries posted on October 2006
BUCLD notes
A couple of weeks ago I handed out a short list of talks that seemed to have something to do with semantics. However, in the meantime there have been a couple of changes. So: Don’t trust the locations (particularly) on the handout, trust the online schedule instead. Systematically, things labeled “B” on my handout will …
HW5, question 2
Homework 5 was prepared in a bit of a rush, and there are a couple of oddities about question #2. If you read the directions carefully, you’ll see that it is anticipated that the sentences in the problem might have more than one interpretation, based on the de re/de dicto distinction. However, when the context …
Mark Liberman on de dicto/de re
I came across an entry in the Language Log that talks a bit about the de dicto/de re distinction from about a year ago, pondering a statement made by a CNN reporter. Perhaps of interest.
More comments on modal bases
This isn’t really new information, but I thought just for clarification I’d sort of say again some things about what modal bases are. A sentence like Pat might have eaten the sandwich can be true or it can be false, first of all. The modal base is basically a set of worlds the comparison is …
Extra patience required
Rather than the usual 426,600 seconds between Thursday and Tuesday classes, this week the Tuesday class isn’t until an entire 430,200 seconds have elapsed since Thursday. On the upside, if you don’t like how your 1-2am Sunday morning goes, you can have a second go at it, immediately afterwards.
Midterm: Numbers and letters
Ok, so I’ve had a chance to do the numbers, and this is how I view numbers you may have gotten on the midterm in “letter grade” terms: A 37 and above A− 33−36 B+ 29−32 B 25−27 B− 21−24 C+ 17−20 C 13−16 I will try to have the key for you soon. The …
Wednesday 10/25 office hours moved to Monday 10/30.
Sorry for the very late announcement, but departmental engagements have arisen that will keep me from being able to hold my normal Wednesday office hours today (10/25). Given that there is no homework due on Thursday, I hope this will not be a great inconvenience. I will have extra office hours on Monday, partly to …
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Practice midterm key: Typo on question 5 part e
Another typo. I was trying at one point to create a plausible contradiction, but gave up, yet it seems I left a completely unrelated answer there for part e. The real answer is either of these: (p→q)∧p p→(q∧p) Incidentally, the words that would have gone with the answer I left in the key would have …
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HW4 key: Typo on p. 4
There seems to be a rather egregious problem with my commentary in the key to homework 4. At the very top of page 4, it says “Here, the two daughters are 2 and 4, and 2 is a function from…” and which point it goes off into bizarro world. 2 is in fact a function …