{"id":50,"date":"2009-09-10T12:57:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T16:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ling.bu.edu\/blogs\/lx502f09\/?p=50"},"modified":"2023-04-29T22:29:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T02:29:39","slug":"handout-on-entailment-including-tips-for-using-the-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/2009\/09\/10\/handout-on-entailment-including-tips-for-using-the-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Handout on Entailment (including tips for using the tests)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px;line-height: 19.0px;font: 13.0px Georgia\">I&#8217;ve put together a handout that summarizes today&#8217;s discussion about entailment. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve also included a bit more information about our tests for entailment, including a few helpful tips for applying them. \u00c2\u00a0In particular, I&#8217;ve tried to clarify the uncertainty about when to use <em>but<\/em> or <em>in fact<\/em> when applying the tests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px;line-height: 19.0px;font: 13.0px Georgia\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ling.bu.edu\/blogs\/lx502f09\/files\/2009\/09\/LX502_EntailmentHandout.pdf\">Handout on Entailment<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px;line-height: 19.0px;font: 13.0px Georgia\">Entailment is a central notion in semantics, and will play a large role in this class. \u00c2\u00a0Unfortunately, our readings have remarkably little to say about the subject. \u00c2\u00a0So hopefully this handout will bridge the gap.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px;line-height: 19.0px;font: 13.0px Georgia\">(BTW, if you happened to download the handout immediately after class ended, go ahead and re-download this version. \u00c2\u00a0It contains more detailed information about the tests.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve put together a handout that summarizes today&#8217;s discussion about entailment. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve also included a bit more information about our tests for entailment, including a few helpful tips for applying them. \u00c2\u00a0In particular, I&#8217;ve tried to clarify the uncertainty about when to use but or in fact when applying the tests. Handout on Entailment Entailment &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/2009\/09\/10\/handout-on-entailment-including-tips-for-using-the-tests\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Handout on Entailment (including tips for using the tests)&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-handouts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}