I mentioned in class that I would make available the overview article on the semantics of questions that I wrote, in case you’re curious to read it. Let me reiterate my caution that it’s not really aimed at a first-semester Semantics class, so after the first couple of sections it will probably be relatively rough …
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 …
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, …
By the way, in case you hadn’t noticed this, there is a brief section of the textbook that talks about some of the concepts of functions and λ notation and so forth, that we talked about yesterday in class. We’ll go into it in some more detail in the coming classes, but in case you …