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Schedule of events.
Below is the current plan as to how the semester will proceed (although there may be some changes as the semester proceeds). How to read this table: The Homework and Reading columns list when homework and reading assignments are announced; the readings should be done before attempting the homework, and the homework is due at the following class meeting unless otherwise noted. Readings and exercises marked CMG are from Chierchia & McConnell-Ginet, readings marked S are from de Swart. Homework assigned on Thursdays is to be turned in on the following Tuesday; homework assigned on Tuesdays will be discussed on Thursday but will not be turned in.
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Date |
Topic |
Homework | Reading |
| 1 |
Tue Jan 14 |
Introduction to enterprise, to entailments, and to presuppositions. |
CMG ch. 1: Ex. 1(even numbers), Ex. 2, Ex. 3(4-6). | CMG ch. 1, sec. 1-3. |
Thu Jan 16 |
Ambiguity, synonymy, contradiction | CMG ch. 1: Ex. 4(3-10, 14, 18), Ex. 5(1-8). | CMG ch. 1, sec. 4; S, sec. 2.4. | |
| 2 |
Tue Jan 21 |
Denotation, truth, meaning. |
CMG ch. 2: Ex 1. | CMG, ch. 2, to p. 73. |
Thu Jan 23 |
Sentential connectives | S ch. 3:5(iii-vii) | S ch. 3. | |
| 3 |
Tue Jan 28 |
Predication, and the syntax of F1. |
CMG ch. 2: Ex. 2 | S sec 4.1; CMG ch. 2, sec 3.2 through 3.2.3. |
Thu Jan 30 |
The semantics of F1, function application
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CMG ch. 2: 5, 6 | CMG
ch. 2, sec. 3.2.4.
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| 4 |
Tue Feb 4 |
CMG ch. 2: 7 | ||
Thu Feb 6 |
Quantification and variable binding, predicate calculus | S ch. 4: 5 (iii-vii) | S sec. 4.2 | |
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5 |
Tue
Feb 11 |
Quantification in English, and QR |
no homework | CMG ch. 3, section 1, section 2 to p. 168. |
Thu Feb 13 |
Lambda abstraction and coordination | CMG, ch. 7: 1(2-4), 2(2-5). (key) | CMG ch. 7 (sec. 1.1 and 3.1). | |
| 6 |
Tue Feb 18 |
No class (Monday schedule) |
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| Thu Feb 20 |
Reviewing the system so far, quantifiers |
(key) |
CMG ch. 3, sec. 2.3-2.4. | |
| 7 |
Tue Feb 25 |
Pronouns and adjectives |
Homework
7 |
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| Thu Feb 27 |
Summary of the system so far, homework discussion.. Practice midterm (and key) |
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| 8 |
Tue Mar 4 |
Further midterm review | ||
| Thu Mar 6 |
Midterm
exam |
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Tue Mar 11 |
No
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Thu Mar 13 |
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| 9 |
Tue Mar 18 |
Intensionality: Tense and time |
CMG, ch.5, sec. 3.1-3.2, S ch. 9, sec. 1 |
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Thu Mar 20 |
Intentionality: Possible worlds and modals |
no homework due 3/25 |
CMG ch. 5, sec. 1, sec. 3.2. |
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| 10 |
Tue Mar 25 |
Intentionality: Complementation, propositional attitudes, de dicto, de re, believing every student is a spy and wanting a hat like Mary's. |
To think about: CMG, ch. 5: exercise 4. (see also notes on handout) | CMG ch. 5, sec. 3.3. |
Thu Mar 27 |
CMG, ch. 5: exercise 5. Exercise 6 was originally assigned but retracted. It will never be due, but it could be used as an "extra credit" assignment. |
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| 11 |
Tue Apr 1 |
Questions |
A couple of things to ponder (for Apr 3):
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Thu Apr 3 |
The discourse game, Gricean maxims and
cooperative conversation, scalar implicatures
Also: commentary about tomatoes (but note that there is a typo: The Supreme Court case they allude to was in 1893 not 1883: Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304 (1893)). You might consider to what extent (and in what circumstances) it matters whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable. What's the significance of the "technically" part of "technically a fruit?" Does the word "fruit" mean "whatever the botanists categorize under the label 'fruit'?" To what degree is "fruit" like "positively charged ion"? What if the botanists had picked the name 'tiurf' for the class of 'fleshy or dry ripened ovaries of a plant, enclosing the seed or seeds'? Any particular reason they had to call that class 'fruit'? Does the word 'fruit' exist apart from botany? |
See handout for homework (analyzing short excerpt from The Princess Bride) (Key) | ||
| 12 |
Tue Apr 8 |
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Thu Apr 10 |
Plurals, mass and count nouns |
See handout for homework (questions about throwing marbles in the lake and approving of four-pound pumpkins) (Key) | ||
| 13 |
Tue Apr 15 |
Special Tax Day guest lecture: Prof. Bruce Fraser (School of Education) on the study of discourse particles.
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Thu Apr 17 |
Event semantics, aktionsarten, telicity Handout for week 1 (events, event types, Jack London's house) Handout for week 2 (telicity, aspect) Special guest lecture: Marina Todorova (Johns Hopkins University) |
See handout for homework (questions about freezing solid, breaking open, and wiping the table clean nude) (Key) |
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| 14 |
Tue Apr 22 |
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Thu Apr 24 |
Lexical decomposition |
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| 15 |
Tue Apr 29 |
Review and recap Handout (day one) Handout (day two) |
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Thu May 1 |
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FINAL
EXAM (Wed May 7, 9am-11am) (key) |
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