The primary goal of this course is to cover advanced topics in semantics and pragmatics that are central to research in those fields. Introduction to truth-conditional compositional semantics. Set theory, first- and higher-order logic, and the lambda calculus as they relate to the study of natural language meaning. Additional attention the meanings of tense/aspect markers and modals.
2-4 units · Letter or Credit/No Credit
The primary goal of this course is to cover advanced topics in semantics and pragmatics that are central to research in those fields. Introduction to truth-conditional compositional semantics. Set theory, first- and higher-order logic, and the lambda calculus as they relate to the study of natural language meaning. Additional attention the meanings of tense/aspect markers and modals.
Offered in Spring 2027 at Stanford University.