Exam Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, April 2 / 12:30-2pm / CAS 324 (our usual classroom)

General Format & Guidelines: The exam will cover all of the material that we’ve touched upon since our first exam (see below for a list of topics).  The individual questions will very much resemble what you have encountered in your recent homework assignments, though the questions will be structured in order to ensure that you can attempt the entire exam in the allotted time.  (If you haven’t yet looked at the answer keys to the homework assignments, it would be a good idea to do so while studying for the exam.  I will post the answer key to your sixth homework assignment by the end of this Friday (March 29) evening.)

Our entailment tests, presupposition tests, Grice’s maxims, and the truth tables for our logical connectives will not be provided to you, so you should have all of this information committed to memory.

Office Hours:  I will hold my regularly-scheduled office hours on this Friday, March 29, from 11:30-1pm.  I will also hold additional office hours on Monday, April 1, from 4-5:30pm.

Topics that we’ve covered since our first exam (use this list as a guide when studying):

Logic and Pragmatic Inference:  accounting for divergences between English sentences and their logical translations with Grice’s maxims

Presupposition:  distinguishing (ordinary) entailments from presuppositions with the S-family test; presupposition triggers; the different effects of presuppositions vs. ordinary entailments on the common ground (given vs. new information)

Predicate Logic:  predicates, arguments, and meaning “below the sentence level”; translating between English and PredL; models and the semantics of PredL

More on Predicates and Arguments:  semantic relations between predicates; thematic roles and argument structure