I’ve put together a handout summarizing the four major aspectual classes of verb phrases, as well as our tests for distinguishing members of different aspectual classes.  You  might find this handout useful when completing Part III of this week’s homework assignment. Handout on Aspectual Classes of Verb Phrases

I’ve put together a handout summarizing the language of (First-Order) Predicate Logic, which we’ve been developing over the past week.  On Tuesday, we’ll finish up with the semantics of quantified formulas, which is also included in the handout.  There’s also quite a bit of discussion about calculating the truth values and truth conditions for formulas …

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I’ve put together a handout summarizing some of the things that we’ve learned about presupposition so far, including the S-family test, various triggers, and presupposition projection.  I realized after today’s lecture that, given the complexity of the sentences that we were investigating today, probably some of you were unable to copy everything done.  So hopefully …

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Here’s a handout summarizing the various relationships between sentences that we saw in today’s class, as well as their treatments in propositional logic: Handout on Logical Relations

I heard from some of you that today’s discussion of constructing truth tables went by a little too quickly for you to copy everything down into your notes.  Since this task figures prominently in your homework assignment for this Thursday, I’ve put together a brief handout on the topic.  It includes a full definition of …

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I’ve put together a short handout on flouting maxims.  It contains a couple of examples (from lecture) of implicatures that arise via a speaker’s flouting of some maxim, as well as the step-by-step derivations of these implicatures.  You might like to refer to these examples when formulating your responses in Assignment 3, Part I. Flouting …

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I’ve put together a handout that summarizes today’s discussion about entailment.  I’ve also included a bit more information about our tests for entailment, including a few helpful tips for applying them.  In particular, I’ve tried to clarify the uncertainty about when to use but or in fact when applying the tests. Handout on Entailment Entailment …

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