PLIN0056 Semantics Research Seminar 2024-25

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 Weak and strong quantifiers

Schedule and lecture notes

Reading
Lecturer
Lecture 1 (4 Oct)
McNally 2019
(Optional: Milsark 1977)
Yasu Sudo
[ handout ]
Lecture 2 (11 Oct)
Nathan Klinedinst
[ handout ]
Lecture 3 (18 Oct)
Yasu Sudo
[ handout ]
Lecture 4 (25 Oct)
Magri 2009 (cont.)
Yasu Sudo
[ handout ]
Lecture 5 (1 Nov)
Yasu Sudo
[ handout ]
Reading Week
NO CLASS
Lecture 6 (15 Nov)
Implicature computation is not blind, but incremental
Yasu Sudo
[ same handout ]
Lecture 7 (22 Nov)
Nathan Klinedinst
[ handout ]
Lecture 8 (29 Nov)
Mankowitz 2023, Idleness
Yasu Sudo
[ handout ]
Lecture 9 (6 Dec)
NO CLASS
Lecture 10 (13 Dec)
Tim Jantarungsee
[ handout ]