Semantics Research Seminar 2014–15

Instructors

• Nathan Klinedinst (Linguistics, UCL)
• Daniel Rothschild (Philosophy, UCL)
• Yasutada Sudo (Linguistics, UCL)

Topic

Dynamic semantics and truth-maker semantics

Schedule and handouts

Week 1

• 16 January 2015
• Introduction to dynamic semantics
• Daniel Rothschild
• [ handout ]

Week 2

• 23 January 2015
• Donkey anaphora
• Nathan Klinedinst
• [ handout ]

Week 3

• 30 January 2015
• More on the proportion problema nd weak-strong donkeys
• Yasutada Sudo
• [ handout ]

Week 4

• 6 February 2015
• Review so far and problems of Brasoveanu’s PCDRT
• Nathan Klinedinst & Yasutada Sudo
• [ handout 1 ] [ handout 2 ]

Week 5

• 13 February 2015
• Foundations of dynamic semantics
• Daniel Rothschild
• [ handout ]

Week 6

• 27 February 2015
• Plural anaphora
• Yasutada Sudo
• [ handout ]

Week 7

• 6 March 2015
• Truth-maker semantics I: Yablo on aboutness
• Daniel Rothschild
• [ handout ]

Week 8

• 13 March 2015
• Truth-maker semantics II: Fine on truth-makers
• Daniel Rothschild
• [ handout ]

Week 9

• 20 March 2015
• Truth-maker semantics III: Scalar implicatures in truth-maker semantics
• Daniel Rothschild
• [ handout ]

Week 10

• 27 March 2015
• Truth-maker semantics IV
• Daniel Rothschild
• [ handout ]