Linguist 230b: Advanced semantics & pragmatics

MeetingsMon/Wed 1:30-2:50 pm
DiscussionCanvas
Location160-120
InstructorChristopher Potts
Office hoursMon/Tue 10:00-11:00
Office460-116

[Chris Barker's lambda tutorial]


Plan Assignment Reference
Apr 2
  1. Alternative topics
  2. Lambda calculi for semantic theories [annotated version]
  1. Assignment 1 [due Apr 16]
  1. Carpenter 1997, chap. 2
  2. Partee 1987
  3. Optional: Coppock & Champollion 2017
  5. Optional: Lewis 1970
  6. Optional: Jacobson 1999
Apr 4
Apr 9
  1. Type-shifting
Apr11
Apr16
  1. Quantifier scope [annotated version]
  2. Exploring theories of scope-taking [annotated version]
  3. A note on semantic reconstruction
  1. Assignment 2 [due Apr 30]
  1. Barker 2014
  2. Reinhart 1997
  3. Optional: Barker 2007
Apr 18
Apr 23
Apr 25
Apr 30
  1. Degree constructions [annotated version]
  1. Assignment 3 [due May 7]
  1. Kennedy 2007
  2. Optional: Morzycki 2014
May 2
May 7
  1. Introduction to intensionality
  1. Assignment 4 [due May 21]
  1. Hintikka 1969
  2. Hacquard 2012
  3. Optional: Kratzer 1981
  4. Optional: Szabó 2010
  5. Optional: Lewis 1979
May 9
May 14
  1. Interrogative semantics
  2. Interrogatives worksheet [annotated version]
  1. Ginzburg 1996, p. 385-404
  2. Optional: Groenendijk & Stokhof 1989
  3. Optional: Karttunen 1977
  4. Optional: Hamblin 1976
  5. Optional: Krifka 2001
  6. Optional: Groenendijk & Roelofsen 2009
May 16
May 21
  1. Topic and focus meanings
  1. Project work 1 [due May 28]
  1. Büring 2007
  2. Optional: Beaver & Clark 2008
May 23
May 28
  1. Memorial Day
  1. Project work 2 [due Jun 4]
  1. Groenendijk 1999
  2. Heim 1983
  3. Optional: Heim 1992
  4. Optional: Dekker 1994
  5. Optional: Groenendijk & Stokhof 1991
May 30
  1. The game of interrogation
  2. Introduction to File-Change Semantics
Jun 8
  1. Student presentations, 2:00-4:00 pm, 160-315
  1. Projects due June 13, 11:59 pm

[Stanford S18 academic calendar]