For F 4/29 and M 5/1, please read the following article, which can be downloaded from the Readings section of this website: Vendler, Zeno. 1962. Each and Every, Any and All. Mind 71(282): 145-160. The article describes some interesting puzzles concerning the interpretation of plural noun phrases and universally quantified arguments.  Although we won’t have time to discuss all of …
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For next Monday and Wednesday, please read the excerpt on aspectual classes of verbs/verb phrases (fr. D. Dowty’s book Word Meaning and Montague Grammar) which I have posted in the Readings section of this website.
For Thursday 4/21 and Friday 4/22, please read section 4.6 (pgs. 85-89) of the Kearns textbook.
For Friday 4/15 and next Wednesday 4/20, please read section 4.3-4.5 (pgs. 73-85) of the Kearns textbook.
For Wednesday 4/13, please read section 4.1 and 4.2 (pgs. 67-72) of the Kearns textbook.
For Wednesday 4/6 and Friday 4/8 please read section 2.4 (pgs. 41-47) of the Kearns textbook.
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.
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.
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”.
For next Monday 2/28 and Wednesday 3/2, please read sections 4.3.1-4.3.2 (pgs. 185-198) of the following book chapter, which can be downloaded (PDF) from the “Readings” section of this website: Levinson, Stephen C. 1983. Pragmatics, Chap. 4 (‘Presupposition’). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.