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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course gives an introduction to the science of linguistic meaning. There are two branches to this discipline: semantics, the study of conventional, "compositional meaning", and pragmatics, the study of interactional meaning. There are other contributaries: philosophy, logic, syntax, and psychology. We will try to give you an understand
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- ambiguities of structure and of meaning
- compositionality
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- quantification and logical form
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- discourse
- presupposition
- literal meaning vs speaker's meaning
- speech acts
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I realize that "Modes of Assertion" is a rather cryptic title for the course. What we will explore are ways of modulating the force of an assertion. This will engage us in formal semantics and pragmatics, the theory of speech acts and performative utterances, and quite a bit of empirical work on a not-too-well understood complex of data.
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- linguistics and philosophy
- linguistic theory
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- modality
- evidentiality
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- modulation
- force
- formal semantics
- pragmatics
- speech acts
- performative utterances
- language constructions
- english
- german
- quechua
- tibetan
- evidentiality marking
- epistemic modality
- performatives
- evidentials
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This course is the second of the three parts of our graduate introduction to semantics. The others are 24.970 Introduction to Semantics and 24.954 Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory. Like the other courses, this one is not meant as an overview of the field and its current developments. Our aim is to help you to develop the ability for semantic
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- displacement
- intensional semantics
- hintikka's idea
- accessibility relations
- modality
- quantificational theory of modality
- material implication analysis
- strict implication analysis
- tense
- conditionals
- progressive
- perfect
- de re
- de dicto
- raised subjects
- scope paradox
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- pragmatic theory
- form and meaning in natural languages
- ambiguities of structure and of meaning
- compositionality
- word meaning
- quantification and logical form
- indexicality
- discourse
- presupposition
- literal meaning vs speaker's meaning
- speech acts
- conversational implicature meaning
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- linguistics and philosophy
- linguistic theory
- semantics
- typology
- preformatics
- modality
- evidentiality
- embedded assertions
- modes of assertion
- modulation
- force
- formal semantics
- pragmatics
- speech acts
- performative utterances
- language constructions
- english
- german
- quechua
- tibetan
- evidentiality marking
- epistemic modality
- performatives
- evidentials
- direc
File: 24-973-spring-2009.zip
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- linguistics and philosophy
- semantics
- logic
- meaning
- syntactic systems
- generative grammar
- displacement
- intensional semantics
- hintikka's idea
- accessibility relations
- modality
- quantificational theory of modality
- material implication analysis
- strict implication analysis
- tense
- conditionals
- progressive
- perfect
- de re
- de dicto
- raised subjects
- scope paradox
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- form and meaning in natural languages
- ambiguities of structure and of meaning
- compositionality
- word meaning
- quantification and logical form
- indexicality
- discourse
- presupposition
- literal meaning vs speaker's meaning
- speech acts
- conversational implicature meaning
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- form and meaning in natural languages
- ambiguities of structure and of meaning
- compositionality
- word meaning
- quantification and logical form
- indexicality
- discourse
- presupposition
- literal meaning vs speaker's meaning
- speech acts
- conversational implicature meaning
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- quantification and logical form
- indexicality
- discourse
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- ambiguities of structure and of meaning
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- quantification and logical form
- indexicality
- discourse
- presupposition
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- speech acts
- conversational implicature meaning
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- quantification and logical form
- indexicality
- discourse
- presupposition
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- speech acts
- conversational implicature meaning
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- ambiguities of structure and of meaning
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- word meaning
- quantification and logical form
- indexicality
- discourse
- presupposition
- literal meaning vs speaker's meaning
- speech acts
- conversational implicature meaning
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- quantification and logical form
- indexicality
- discourse
- presupposition
- literal meaning vs speaker's meaning
- speech acts
- conversational implicature meaning
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- discourse
- presupposition
- literal meaning vs speaker's meaning
- speech acts
- conversational implicature meaning
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