Heim & Kratzer (password-protected): Heim & Kratzer
von Fintel & Heim's classnotes: Version from 2011
Class 1
Handout 1: Plural semantics First TD session Questions raised in class, and suggested readings
Reading for first two sesssions:
Lucas Champollion, Distributivity, collectivity, and cumulativity (handbook article), to appear in the Wiley's Companion to Semantics, draft available at http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002133
Class 2
Handout2 : plural semantics continued
Homework assignment (due on Monday March 26)
Class 3 - same handout Recording for class 3
Class 4 - Interrogative semantics
Background readings:
- Last chapter of Heim & Kratzer's book on intensional semantics.
Class 5 - Interrogative semantics, continued
Homework assignment #3 (due on April 9)
Class 6 - Interrogative semantics, continued
2 new handouts (one of the two used in class had small mistakes, which are now correct):
***The version for that one used in class had mistakes/typos (thanks to Milica for catching them!)***
Class 7 - Philippe Schlenker's handout on indexicality
Class 8 - Focus semantics
Handout (Intro to Focus Semantics)
Background readings:
- Survey paper by Mats Rooth: Focus, in The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory, ed. S. Lappin, Blackwell, 1997.
- Survey paper by Daniel Büring: Semantics, Intonation, and Information Structure, The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces, ed. Ramchand & Reiss, 2007.
Homework Assignment #4 - Due on Monday May 21 (please send your assigment to Milica and me by e-mail, there will be no TA session on May 21).