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 this week’s homework assignment. Handout on Aspectual Classes of Verb Phrases

Here is the handout on First-Order Predicate Logic (FOPL) that was distributed in today’s class: The Language of First-Order Predicate Logic

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

Here’s a PDF handout summarizing today’s in-class discussion of semantic relations amongst sentences, and how they can be identified using propositional logic truth tables: Semantic Relations Amongst Sentences

Here’s a PDF version of the handout on propositional logic that was distributed in class today.  For those of you in the A1 section (Pete’s section), this version also contains the full truth table for example (3)–once you’ve completed it on your own, you can check your results against this version. The Language of Propositional …

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Here’s a PDF version of the handout entitled “All, most, and some: A case study in implicature”, which we (Pete’s section) worked through in today class: ‘All’, ‘most’, and ‘some’: A case study in implicature

Here’s a handout which (i) summarizes some of the key concepts we’ve introduced in class so far, and (ii) summarizes our discussion of entailments, as well as our tests for identifying them.  Since these tests do not appear anywhere in your readings, I thought that this would be a useful addition to your notes.  You …

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