Semantics Research Seminar 2024-25
Module code: PLIN0056
Lecturers: 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
Weak and strong quantifiers
Schedule
Time: Friday, 15:15–17:00
Location: 133, Foster course, UCL
Lecture 1
- 4 Oct
- Lecturer: Yasu Sudo
- Reading: McNally 2019
- Optional reading: Milsark 1977
- [ handout ]
Lecture 2
- 11 Oct
- Lecturer: Nathan Klinedinst
- Reading: Barwise & Cooper 1981
- [ handout ]
Lecture 3
- 18 Oct
- Lecturer: Yasu Sudo
- Reading: Magri 2009
- [ handout ]
Lecture 4
- 25 Oct
- Lecturer: Yasu Sudo
- Reading: Magri 2009 (cont.)
- [ handout ]
Lecture 5
- 1 Nov
- Lecturer: Yasu Sudo
- Reading: Magri 2017
- [ handout ]
Reading Week (no class)
Lecture 6
- 15 Nov
- Lecturer: Yasu Sudo
- Implicature computation is not blind, but incremental
- Same handout as Lecture 5
Lecture 7
- 22 Nov
- Lecturer: Nathan Klinedinst
- Reading: Lappin & Reinhart 1988, Reinhart 2002, Abusch & Rooth 2002
- [ handout ]
Lecture 8
- 29 Nov
- Lecturer: Yasu Sudo
- Idleness
- Reading: Mankowitz 2023
- [ handout ]
Lecture 9 (no class)
- 6 Dec