Courses
Courses in 2019-2020
- Semantics (Undergraduate, Fall 2019 and Spring 2020)
- Semantics I (Graduate, Fall 2019)
- Qualifying Paper Workshop (Graduate, Spring 2020)
Semantics of Questions (Graduate, Rutgers, Spring 2019)
- Week 1-2: Introduction, Hamblin and Karttunen Semantics
- Week 3: Categorial approaches
- Week 4: Class canceled due to a weather emergency
- Week 5: Partition Semantics
- Week 6: Uniqueness, maximality, and negative islands
- Week 7: Higher-order readings and wh-lexicons
- Week 8: Pair-list readings of multi-wh questions
- Week 9: Spring break
- Week 10-11: Questions with a quantifier
- Week 12: Mention-some questions
- Week 13*: Variations of exhaustivity
- Week 14*: Question-embeddings vs other embeddings, false answer sensitivity
- Week 15*: Quantificational variability, and non-canonical questions
(* Student presentations)
Semantics I (Graduate, Rutgers, Fall 2018)
- Week 1: Introduction
- Week 2: Set, relations, and functions
- Week 3: Propositional logic and Predicate logic
- Week 4: Type theory
- Week 5: Basics of composition and Lambda calculus
- Week 6: NP modification and relative clauses
- Week 7: Determiners and quantifiers and Variables and Movements
- Week 8: Ways of scoping: quantifier raising versus type-shifting
- Week 9: Binding and pronouns
- Week 10: VP modification and Event Semantics
- Week 11: Intensional Semantics and Quiz
- Week 12-13: Implicatures and Negative polarity items
- Week 14: Presuppositions
- Week 15: Abstract workshop
The above handouts take insights from the following materials: Coppock & Champollion 2018, Charlow 2015, Heim & Kratzer 1998, Chierchia & McConnell-Ginet 2000, Heim 2011 Pragmatics class notes, Partee 2009 notes
Other courses:
Pragmatics (Rutgers, undergraduate, Fall 2018)
Knowledge of Meaning (Harvard, undergraduate semantics, Spring 2017)
Word Structure (Harvard, undergraduate morphology, Spring 2017)
Semantics of Questions (Undergraduate & Graduate, Harvard, Fall 2016)