Category Archives: Class Blogs

Two people in the class (Yuval and Kristen — thanks!!) have alerted me to an issue with one of the examples I used in class. Recall this: In the fairy tale “The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats”, the little … Continue reading →

Lecture 9: handout, slides, audio

Reminder: the squib proposal should be send in to me () by the end of the weekend.

As mentioned in class, if you want to read a bit on the initial set-up of intensional semantics, I have two recommendations: Chapter 12 of the Heim & Kratzer textbook the beginning chapters of the lecture notes on intensional semantics … Continue reading →

Lecture 8: handout, slides, audio

In class today I presented the following example: (1) Once everyone now alive hadn’t been born yet. I attributed the example to Hans Kamp’s paper “Formal Properties of Now“. This attribution is incorrect. The example Kamp uses to make the … Continue reading →

Stalnaker on “Pragmatics”

Lecture 7: handout, slides

Starting this week, Prag Beer will be held Friday afternoons instead of Tuesday afternoons. Our meeting place will still be the R&D Pub, located on the fourth floor of the Stata Center. Contrary to what we said in class, we … Continue reading →

A. The presupposition of (3) is that someone broke the typewriter. That of (4) is that for some salient person x, x is going to Sweden (assuming “Thony” is focussed). Note that the presupposition of the latter sentence cannot be … Continue reading →