Beginning this Friday (4/1), we will spend our next several class meetings investigating the semantics of pronouns and quantified arguments.  In preparation for our discussions, please read the short excerpt on these two topics  (from E. Bach’s book Informal Lectures on Formal Semantics) which I have posted in the Readings section of this website.
The key for homework #6 has now been posted to the readings page.
Your sixth homework assignment is now available for download–just click on the link below for a PDF version.  It will be due on Friday, March 5, at the beginning of class. HW6 (due F 3/25 @ beg. of class)
The key for homework #5 has now been posted to the readings page.
For the week of Monday 3/21, please read the following book chapter, which can be downloaded (PDF) from the “Readings” section of this website: Löbner, Sebastian. 2002. Understanding Semantics, Chap. 5 (‘Meaning Relations’). London: Arnold Publishers.
Here are complete versions (PDF) of the handouts on Predicate Logic that were distributed in yesterday’s class: The Language of Predicate Logic A Sample Model for Predicate Logic Semantics
The key for homework #4 has now been posted to the readings page.
Your fifth homework assignment is now available for download–just click on the link below for a PDF version.  It will be due on Thursday, March 10, at 5pm.  Since we do not have a class meeting on Thursday 3/10, please submit your assignment either via email, or by delivering a hard copy to either Paul’s or …
For Friday 3/4, please read section 2.3 of the Kearns textbook. On Friday, and also for next week, we will look at the language of predicate logic, which provides us with a means to represent meaning relations “below the sentence level”.