Linguist 130a/230a – Section

This page is for the section accompanying Linguist 130a/230a. We will build on the technical tools introduced in the lecture, practice their use, and explore the similarities and differences of what we are doing with logic.

New materials will be added weekly (see below). You can also ask any course-related questions and do not have to be at the session for the whole time.


Topic Materials
Week 2
  1. General Q&A
  2. Basic set theory
  1. Notes and exercises [solved version]
Week 3
  1. Compound nouns
  1. Fundamentals of Levin et al. [solved version]
Week 4
  1. Semantic grammar
  1. Practice with our compositional grammar [solved version]
Week 5
  1. Quantifiers
  1. Some formal analyses of determiners
Week 6
  1. Midterm exam review
  1. Practice midterm exam [solved version]
Week 7
  1. Conversational implicature
  1. Conversational implicature derivations and tests [solved version]
Week 8
  1. Presupposition
  1. Testing for different kinds of meaning [solved version]
Week 9
  1. Vagueness and context dependence
  2. Speech acts
  1. Review of vagueness and context dependence [solved version]
  2. Review of speech acts [solved version]
Week 10
  1. Final exam review
  1. Practice final exam