Semantics and Generative Grammar:
Class Handouts


The Formalization of Meaning

  • A Basic Review of Sets and Functions
  • The Foundations of Truth-Conditional Semantics
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    Expanding Our Basic Formalism

  • Expanding Our Formalism, Part 1
  • Expanding Our Formalism, Part 2
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    Pronouns, Relative Clauses and Binding

  • Pronouns and Relative Clauses, Part 1: (Free) Pronouns and Variable Assignments
  • Pronouns and Relative Clauses, Part 2: Relative Clauses and Bound Pronouns
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    Midterm

  • Discussion Notes
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    Quantificational Determiners and DPs

  • Quantificational DPs, Part 1: Their Basic Semantics
  • Quantificational DPs, Part 2: Quantificational DPs in Non-Subject Position
  • Quantificational DPs, Part 3: The Movement Account vs. The Type-Shifting Account
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    Introducing Intensions

  • Towards an Intensional Semantics, Part 1: Sentential Complementation and the Formalization of Intensions
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    Final Summary of Course Contents