{"id":160,"date":"2017-12-22T18:11:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T18:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/professor-example\/?page_id=160"},"modified":"2019-05-02T18:39:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T18:39:53","slug":"courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/yimei-xiang\/courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Courses in 2019-2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Semantics (Undergraduate, Fall 2019 and Spring 2020)<\/li>\n<li>Semantics I (Graduate, Fall 2019)<\/li>\n<li>Qualifying Paper Workshop (Graduate, Spring 2020)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Semantics of Questions<\/strong> (Graduate, Rutgers, Spring 2019)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Week 1-2: <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/01\/ho1-courseintro.pdf\">Introduction<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/01\/ho2-hamblin-karttunen.pdf\">Hamblin and Karttunen Semantics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Week 3: <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/01\/ho3-categorial.pdf\">Categorial approaches<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Week 4: Class canceled due to a weather emergency<\/li>\n<li>Week 5: <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/02\/ho4-partition.pdf\">Partition Semantics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Week 6: <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/02\/ho5-unique-max-island.pdf\">Uniqueness, maximality, and negative islands<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Week 7: Higher-order readings and <em>wh<\/em>-lexicons<\/li>\n<li>Week 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/ho7-multi-wh-questions.pdf\">Pair-list readings of multi-<em>wh<\/em> questions<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Week 9: Spring break<\/li>\n<li>Week 10-11: <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/ho8-questions-with-quantifiers.pdf\">Questions with a quantifier<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Week 12: <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/ho9-mention-some.pdf\">Mention-some questions<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Week 13*: <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/ho10-variation-of-exhaustivity.pdf\">Variations of exhaustivity<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Week 14*: Question-embeddings vs other embeddings, <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/ho11-sensitivity-to-false-answers.pdf\">false answer sensitivity<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Week 15*: Quantificational variability, and non-canonical questions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">(* Student presentations)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Semantics I<\/strong> (Graduate, Rutgers, Fall 2018)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Week 1: <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/09\/ho1-intro.pdf\">Introduction<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Week 2:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/09\/ho2-set-function.pdf\">Set, relations, and functions<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Week 3: <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/09\/ho3-propositional-logic.pdf\">Propositional logic<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/09\/ho4-predicate-logic.pdf\">Predicate logic<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Week 4: <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/09\/ho5-type-theory.pdf\">Type theory<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Week 5: <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/ho6-basics-of-compositions.pdf\">Basics of composition<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/ho7-lambda-calculas.pdf\">Lambda calculus<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Week 6: <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/ho8-np-modification.pdf\">NP modification and relative clauses<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Week 7: <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/ho9-generalized-quantifiers.pdf\">Determiners and quantifiers<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/ho10-variables-and-quantifier-raising.pdf\">Variables and Movements<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Week 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/ho11-ways-of-scoping.pdf\">Ways of scoping: quantifier raising versus type-shifting<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Week 9: <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/11\/ho12-binding-and-pronouns1.pdf\">Binding and pronouns<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Week 10: <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/11\/ho13-vp-modification-and-event-semantics.pdf\">VP modification and Event Semantics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Week 11: <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/11\/ho14-intensional-semantics.pdf\">Intensional Semantics<\/a>\u00a0and Quiz<\/li>\n<li>Week 12-13: <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/11\/ho15-implicatures.pdf\">Implicatures<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/11\/ho16-npis1.pdf\">Negative polarity items<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Week 14: <a href=\"https:\/\/yimeixiang.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/ho16-presuppositions.pdf\">Presuppositions<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Week 15: Abstract workshop<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The above handouts take insights from the following materials: <a href=\"http:\/\/eecoppock.info\/semantics-boot-camp.pdf\">Coppock &amp; Champollion 2018<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/simoncharlow.com\/courses\/f15\/sem1\/\">Charlow 2015<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Semantics-Generative-Blackwell-Textbooks-Linguistics\/dp\/0631197133\">Heim &amp; Kratzer 1998<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/meaning-and-grammar-second-edition\">Chierchia &amp; McConnell-Ginet 2000<\/a>, Heim 2011 Pragmatics class notes, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.umass.edu\/partee\/MGU_2009\/\">Partee 2009 notes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Other courses:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pragmatics<\/strong> (Rutgers, undergraduate, Fall 2018)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Knowledge of Meaning<\/strong> (Harvard, undergraduate semantics, Spring 2017)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Word Structure<\/strong> (Harvard, undergraduate morphology, Spring 2017)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Semantics of 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