Linguist 230b: Advanced semantics & pragmatics

MeetingsTue/Thu 10:30-11:50 am
SubmissionsCanvas
Location200-305
InstructorChristopher Potts
Office hoursBy appointment
Office460-116

[Chris Barker's lambda tutorial]


Plan Assignment Reference
Sep 27
  1. Lambda calculi for semantic theories
  1. Assignment 1 [now just problems 1-5; due Oct 11; tex source]
  1. Carpenter 1997, chap. 2
  2. Optional: Coppock & Champollion 2017
  4. Optional: Lewis 1970
Sep 29
Oct 4
  1. NP type-shifting
  1. Partee 1987
  2. Winter 2022
  3. Optional: Jacobson 1999
Oct 6
Oct 11
  1. Assignment 2 [converted to problems 6-8 of Assignment 1; due Oct 18]
Oct 13
Oct 18
  1. Quantifier scope
  1. Assignment 3 [due Oct 25; tex source]
  1. Barker 2015
  2. Reinhart 1997
  3. Optional: Barker 2007
Oct 20
Oct 25
  1. Assignment 4 [due Nov 1; tex source]
Oct 27
Nov 1
  1. Introduction to intensionality
  2. A note on semantic reconstruction
  3. Lawful bicycle riding given the circumstances [Python notebook]
  1. Assignment 5 [due Nov 8; tex source]
  1. Hintikka 1969
  2. Hacquard 2012
  3. Optional: Kratzer 1981
  4. Optional: Szabó 2010
  5. Optional: Lewis 1979
Nov 3
Nov 8
  1. Democracy Day
Nov 10
  1. Degree constructions
  1. Lit review work 1 [due Nov 29]
  1. Kennedy 2007
  2. Optional: Morzycki 2015
Nov 15
Nov 17
Nov 22
  1. Thanksgiving Break
Nov 24
Nov 29
  1. Interrogative semantics
  2. Interrogatives worksheet
  3. Topic and focus meanings
  1. Lit review work 2 [due Dec 6]
  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
  7. Büring 2007
  8. Optional: Beaver & Clark 2008
Dec 1
Dec 6
  1. Lit review presentations
  1. Lit reviews due December 15, 2022, 6:30 pm Pacific
Dec 8

[Stanford F22 academic calendar]