Yasutada Sudo

Semantics Research Seminar 2022-23

Module code: PLIN0056

Lecturer: Nathan Klinedinst & Yasutada Sudo

About

This seminar is a PhD-level research seminar course on the intersection of natural language semantics and philosophy of language. It meets weekly during Term 1 at UCL. The main target audience of the seminar is PhD students, as well as staff, interested in linguistics, philosophy of language and related areas.

Topic

Lectures 1–5: Indefinites with exceptional scope (by Yasu Sudo)

The second half will consist of guest lectures

Schedule

Lecture 1

  • 7 Oct
  • Referential indefinites
  • [ handout ]

Lecture 2

  • 14 Oct
  • Choice functions
  • [ handout ]

Lecture 3

  • 21 Oct
  • Pied-piping and scope
  • [ handout ]

Lecture 4

  • 28 Oct
  • Indefinites and presuppositions
  • [ slides ]

Lecture 5 (cancelled)

  • 4 Nov
  • Presuppositional indefinites in a neo-Heimian dynamic semantics
  • [ slides ]

Reading Week (no class)

Lecture 6 (no class)

Lecture 7 (strike, no class)

Lecture 8 (cancelled)

Lecture 9

  • 9 Dec
  • Zoom lecture by Sam Cumming (UCLA)

Lecture 10

  • 16 Dec
  • Zoom lecture by Maria Aloni & Marco Degano (Universiteit van Amsterdam)