semantics etc.

Kai von Fintel's website

LSA Class on Modality

Sabine Iatridou and I just finished teaching a three week class on modality at the LSA summer institute in Berkeley. Since the Berkeley class website isn’t easily accessible, here are our teaching materials:

  1. Syllabus
  2. Class 1 Handout: Intro and must
  3. Class 2 Handout: Some syntax
  4. Anatomy of a modal construction
  5. How to say ought in Foreign
  6. Class 5 Handout: Modality and tense
  7. Class 6 Handout: Imperatives
  8. Bibliography