Semantics Research Seminar 2015–16

Instructors

• Nathan Klinedinst (Linguistics, UCL)
• Yasutada Sudo (Linguistics, UCL)

Topic

Question semantics

Schedule and handouts

Week 1

• 15 January 2016
• Introduction to question semantics
• Yasutada Sudo
• [ handout ]

Week 2

• 22 January 2016
• Exhaustivity and question embedding I
• Nathan Klinedinst
• [ handout ]

Week 3

• 29 January 2016
• Exhaustivity and question embedding II
• Nathan Klinedinst
• [ handout ]

Week 4

• 5 February 2016
• Egré & Spector
• Patrick D. Elliott

Week 5

• 12 February 2016
• Multiple questions and pair-list readings
• Patrick D. Elliott
• [ handout ]

Week 6

• 26 February 2016
• Functional answers to quesstions I
• Yasutada Sudo
• [ handout ]

Week 7

• 4 March 2016
• Responsive predicates and their selectional restriction
• Wataru Uegaki

Week 8

• 11 March 2016
• Functional answers to questions II
• Yasutada Sudo

Week 9

• 18 March 2016
• Student presentations

Week 10

• 25 March
• Student presentations