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Homework 3 is the exercise on connectives in Heim & Kratzer (page 23). The reading for next week is chapter 2 of Heim & Kratzer.

Background: superego

Syllabus

This is the course website for 24.970 “Introduction to Semantics”, a course taught by Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Kai von Fintel in the Fall of 2005 at MIT.

Lecture 12: handout, slides, audio

Lecture 11: handout, slides, audio

Lewis: De Se

Lecture 10: handout, slides, audio

On Wednesday, we’ll be talking about referential definites. An optional reading for this is Kripke’s paper from the syllabus.

This is from one of today’s slides that we didn’t have time to talk about. It is a variant of the fairy tale modeled after observations by Geoff Nunberg: Before the mother goat goes out, she instructs the little goats … Continue reading →