Reading for Tu 4/30: Kearns §8.1-8.3 (pgs. 156-166)
For next Tuesday 4/30, please read sections 8.1-8.3 (pgs. 156-166) of the Kearns textbook.
For next Tuesday 4/30, please read sections 8.1-8.3 (pgs. 156-166) of the Kearns textbook.
For this Thursday 4/25, please read section 6.9 (pgs. 118-121) of the Kearns textbook.
For this Tuesday 4/23, please read sections 6.3 through 6.7 (pgs. 99-111) of the Kearns textbook.
For next Tuesday 4/16, please read sections 6.1 and 6.2 (pgs. 94-99) of the Kearns textbook.
For next week, please read Chapter 3 of the Kearns textbook, which deals with the semantics of quantified arguments.
Beginning this Thursday (4/4), 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 next Tuesday 3/26, please read sections 10.1-10.3 (pgs. 206-220) of the Kearns textbook.
For the week of Tuesday 3/19, 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 next Tuesday 3/5 and Thursday 3/7, please read section 2.3 (pgs. 32-39) of the Kearns textbook. 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 Thursday 2/28, please read sections 5.5-5.6 (pgs. 163-172) of the following book chapter, which is still available from the “Readings” section of this website: Birner, Betty. 2012. Introduction to Pragmatics, Chap. 5 (‘Presupposition’). Malden, MA: Blackwel