12/11 office hours 12-2pm
I’ll add some office hours on Monday, 12-2pm, since I wasn’t able to hold my Friday office hours and because the last homework is due on Tuesday.
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What’s with all the double brackets?
In this most recent foray into formal semantics, I started doing something on the handout that I had not been doing before, which is using these “fat brackets.” “What are they?”, you may be asking yourself. Basically, in places where I “ought to” have written fat brackets, in the earlier handouts in the semester I’d …
HW8: Details, due Tuesday Dec 5
As announced in class, homework #8 is just running through a couple of sentences using the system we went over in class (that is, with the modifications to the syntax, to the F function, with full specification of the evaluations at M,w,t,g. You can either use the definition of past tense on the bottom of …
Monday 11/20 office hours 12-1
To make up for my missed office hours on Thursday, I’ll have office hours tomorrow from 12-1pm. As usual, if you want to meet to discuss something but this time doesn’t work for you, just let me know and we can probably schedule a different time.
No office hours today
Sorry for the very late notice but I forgot to announce that I will need to cancel my office hours today. I’ll be around afterwards, maybe 5:30 or so, and then Monday (but not much Friday).
I don’t understand presuppositions
I think the consensus view that I’ve been getting is that the discussion of presuppositions on Tuesday ended up being about as clear as mud. I’m going to take another stab at it in class tomorrow, so if you feel that you don’t fully control the intricacies of presupposition projection, I hope to try to …
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.
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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Midterm summary/notes
I have also posted some midterm notes that might be helpful. A word about these: Because I wanted to get this posted as soon as I could, I kind of cobbled these together from other handouts I’ve made in the past. As a result, these notes go into rather more depth on certain things (logic, …