This course is the second of the three parts of our graduate introduction to semantics. The others are 24.970 Introduction to Semantics and 24.954 Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory. Like the other courses, this one is not meant as an overview of the field and its current developments. Our aim is to help you develop the ability for semantic analysis, and we think that exploring a few topics in detail together with hands-on practical work is more effective than offering a bird’s-eye view of everything. This time around, we will work on three sets of topics: (1) modality, conditionals, scope in modal contexts, (2) tense, events, time adverbials, (3) indefinites, generics, adverbial quantification.
Prerequisites: I will presuppose the material in chapters 1–8 of Heim & Kratzer, basic familiarity with Predicate Logic, and some syntax (wh-movement, raising and control, Binding Theory). If you have not completed 24.970, please talk to me before you enroll (or commit yourself to staying enrolled).
A more detailed “syllabus”:http://semantics-online.org/advsem/syllabus.pdf can be downloaded.
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