Classes: Thursday, 2pm-4pm, Salle Cavaillès (45 rue d'Ulm), except on Nov. 26 (room U. 207)
TA sessions: Wednesday, 3pm-4pm, salle Pasteur, pavillon Pasteur (Philosophy Dept on 45 rue d'Ulm)
Instructor: Benjamin Spector (benjamin.spector@ens.fr)
TA: Janek Guerrini (janek.guerrini@ens.fr)
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Moodle (ENS) : 2021_DEC-LING302-S1
At this point I’m not using Moodle (yet), due to potential issues with using different versions from different institutions (to be clarified).
Optional Readings:
HandOut used in Class 2, with some revisions (I added the missing section about non-lexical cumulativity).
Slides on specific indefinites
Long Distance Indefinites and Choice Functions (survey paper by Bernhard Schwarz)`
A useful handout by my colleague Jeremy Kuhn is available on the Moodle page for the class.
Readings:
Von Fintel and Heim's lecture notes in intensional semantics : please read chapter 1 and chapter 8 (sections 8.1 and 8.2)
A paper by Yasutada Sudo: On de re Predicates
Readings:
Matt Mandelkern, A note on the architecture of presupposition, Semantics and Pragmatics 2016
Propositional Dynamic Semantics: an implementation of Heim's approach
Handout on Dynamic Predicate Logic
Other resources:
Yasutada Sudo's classnotes: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucjtudo/teaching/Lecture1.html
Heim's dissertation (a classic)
Handout [in this handout we present a system with partial assignments which captures the felicity conditions of indefinites (novelty condition) and pronouns (familiarity condition), very much in the spirit of Heim's file change semantics, but with an important difference: as in DPL, indefinites are translated as existential quantifiers. The semantic rules are close to that of DPL but adds felicity conditions.
Due on Oct. 14, before class. Please return the assignment on-line as a pdf file on Moodle (2021_DEC-LING302-S1)
Ideally, type it in, but you can also write it and send a picture, in a single pdf file.
If you face a technical difficulty and need to submit it in some other way, please let me know.
Due on Nov. 10. Please return the assignment on-line as a pdf file on Moodle (2021_DEC-LING302-S1), unless you don't have access to Moodle (in which case please return it by email).
Ideally, type it in, but you can also write it and send a picture, in a single pdf file.
Due on Dec. 17. Please return the assignment on-line as a pdf file on Moodle (2021_DEC-LING302-S1), unless you don't have access to Moodle (in which case please return it by email).
Ideally, type it in, but you can also write it and send a picture, in a single pdf file.
Due on Feb 1. Please return the assignment on-line as a pdf file on Moodle (2021_DEC-LING302-S1), unless you don't have access to Moodle (in which case please return it by email).
Ideally, type it in, but you can also write it and send a picture, in a single pdf file.
Several things:
- Do not hesitate to contact me and/or Janek to discuss the assignment
- You can collaborate, but you must write your assignments separately,
and individually (ideally please indicate who collaborated).
- If you foresee any difficulty meeting the deadline, please let me know!