{"id":327,"date":"2013-05-02T14:12:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T18:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s13\/?p=327"},"modified":"2023-04-29T22:20:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T02:20:18","slug":"final-exam-and-final-office-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s13\/2013\/05\/02\/final-exam-and-final-office-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Exam and Final Office Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Final Exam Date\/Time: \u00a0<\/strong>Tuesday, May 7, 12:30-2:30pm (CAS 324, our usual classroom)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Office Hours:<\/strong> \u00a0Friday May 3, 11:30am-1pm; Monday May 6, 3:30-5pm<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>General Format:<\/strong>\u00a0The exam\u00a0<em>will<\/em>\u00a0be cumulative, covering the entire semester&#8217;s material. \u00a0But the emphasis will be on the material that we&#8217;ve covered since the second midterm exam. \u00a0As with your two previous midterm exams, the questions will closely resemble those that you&#8217;ve seen in your homework assignments, though they will be designed to be completed in a shorter amount of time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Topics that we&#8217;ve covered this semester (use this list as a guide when studying)<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Literal Meaning vs. Utterance Meaning<\/em>: \u00a0entailment vs. implicature; Grice&#8217;s maxims; types of implicatures (e.g., scalar)<\/p>\n<p><em>Propositional Logic<\/em>:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>truth tables; logical relations b\/w sentences; the &#8220;fit&#8221; between PropL and \u00a0English\u00a0(logic vs. pragmatics)<\/p>\n<p><em>Presupposition<\/em>: S-family test; presupposition triggers; different effects of presuppositions vs. ordinary entailments on the common ground (given vs. new information)<\/p>\n<p><em>Predicate Logic<\/em>: predicates and arguments; pronouns and variables; models, assignment functions, and the semantics of PredL<\/p>\n<p><em>Word-Level Semantic Relations<\/em>: \u00a0hyponymy; types of opposites<\/p>\n<p><em>Quantified Arguments<\/em>: \u00a0the universal and existential quantifiers; the Aristotelian Square of Opposition; ambiguities involving quantified arguments; restricted quantifiers; negative polarity items<\/p>\n<p><em>Lexical Semantics<\/em>: \u00a0aspectual classes of VPs; distributive vs. collective predicates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final Exam Date\/Time: \u00a0Tuesday, May 7, 12:30-2:30pm (CAS 324, our usual classroom) Office Hours: \u00a0Friday May 3, 11:30am-1pm; Monday May 6, 3:30-5pm General Format:\u00a0The exam\u00a0will\u00a0be cumulative, covering the entire semester&#8217;s material. \u00a0But the emphasis will be on the material that we&#8217;ve covered since the second midterm exam. \u00a0As with your two previous midterm exams, the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s13\/2013\/05\/02\/final-exam-and-final-office-hours\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Final Exam and Final Office Hours&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx502s13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}