PLIN0056 Semantics Research Seminar 2023-24
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
The topic for this year is question semantics
Schedule and lecture notes
Topic
Lecturer
Reading
Location
Lecture 1 (6 Oct)
Compositional semantic theories for questions
Yasu Sudo
[ handout ]
Ch. 8 "Interrogative clauses" of von Fintel & Heim
Optional: Hamblin (1958, 1973), Karttunan (1977)
Optional: Hamblin (1958, 1973), Karttunan (1977)
M3, School of Pharmacy
Lecture 2 (13 Oct)
Functional readings and reconstruction
Yasu Sudo
[ handout ]
Heim (2012)
Optional: Rullmann & Beck (1998)
Optional: Rullmann & Beck (1998)
B07, Chandler House
Lecture 3 (20 Oct)
Exhaustivity
Yasu Sudo
[ handout ]
Fox (2018)
Optional: Klinedinst & Rothschild (2011)
Optional: Klinedinst & Rothschild (2011)
B07, Chandler House
Lecture 4 (27 Oct)
Mention-some questions
Nathan Klinedinst
[ handout ]
Fox (2018), Xiang (2022)
B07, Chandler House
Lecture 5 (3 Nov)
Reading Week
NO CLASS
Lecture 6 (17 Nov)
NO CLASS due to PALLMYR
Lecture 8 (1 Dec; TBA)
Nested wh-questions
Yasu Sudo
[ handout ]
Zoom
Lecture 9 (8 Dec)
TBA
Vincent Rouillard (MIT)
Zoom
Lecture 10 (15 Dec)
TBA
Wataru Uegaki (Edinburgh)
Zoom