LING 4160/6160

Compositional Semantics
Credit Hours:
3

An introduction to the formal analysis of sentential meaning, from a linguist's perspective. After first isolating a truth-conditional notion of literal meaning, we will use techniques from logic to describe how the meanings of sentences are built from those of their parts.

Prerequisites:
[(LING 3150 or LING 3150W) and (PHIL 2500 and PHIL 2500H and PHIL 2500E)] or POD
Level:
Graduate
Undergraduate

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Spring 2024

Fall 2023

Spring 2023

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Spring 2022

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Pilar Chamorro Fernández

Associate Professor


Pilar Chamorro Fernández

Associate Professor

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