Yasutada Sudo

Semantics Research Seminar 2023-24

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

Question Semantics

Schedule

Time: Friday, 15:00–17:00

Lecture 1

  • 6 Oct
  • M3, School of Pharmacy
  • Lecturer: Yasu Sudo
  • Compositional semantic theories for questions
  • Reading: Ch. 8 “Interrogative clauses” of von Fintel & Heim
  • Optional reading: Hamblin 1958, 1973, Karttunen 1977
  • [ handout ]

Lecture 2

  • 13 Oct
  • B07, Chandler House
  • Lecturer: Yasu Sudo
  • Functional readings and reconstruction
  • Reading: Heim 2012
  • Optional reading: Rullmann & Beck 1998
  • [ handout ]

Lecture 3

  • 20 Oct
  • B07, Chandler House
  • Lecturer: Yasu Sudo
  • Exhaustivity
  • Reading: Fox 2018
  • Optional reading: Klinedinst & Rothschild 2011
  • [ handout ]

Lecture 4

  • 27 Oct
  • B07, Chandler House
  • Lecturer: Nathan Klinedinst
  • Mention-some questions
  • Reading: Fox 2018, Xiang 2022
  • [ slides ]

Lecture 5 (cancelled)

  • 3 Nov

Reading Week (no class)

Lecture 6

Lecture 7

  • 24 Nov

    1 Dec

  • B07, Chanlder House
  • Lecturer: Yasu Sudo
  • Multiple wh-questions
  • [ handout ]

Lecture 8 (cancelled)

Lecture 9

  • 8 Dec
  • Zoom
  • Guest lecturer: Vincent Rouillard (MIT)
  • Bare Interrogatives and Number: a Case for Higher Order Quantification, a Weak Singular and a Strong Plural.
  • [ slides ]

Lecture 10