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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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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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- preformatics
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- evidentiality
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- force
- formal semantics
- pragmatics
- speech acts
- performative utterances
- language constructions
- english
- german
- quechua
- tibetan
- evidentiality marking
- epistemic modality
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This course will investigate the semantics of generic sentences, i.e., sentences that are used to talk about habits, tendencies, dispositions, or kinds. For instance:
Dogs are good pets.
The giant panda is an endangered species.
A soccer player makes lots of money.
Mary smokes after dinner.
This machine crushes oranges.
This is a half-sem
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- adverbial quantifiers
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The course introduces formal theories of context-dependency, presupposition, implicature, context-change, focus and topic. Special emphasis is on the division of labor between semantics and pragmatics. It also covers applications to the analysis of quantification, definiteness, presupposition projection, conditionals and modality, anaphora,
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- context-dependency
- presupposition
- implicature
- context-change
- focus and topic
- division of labor
- semantics
- pragmatics
- quantification
- definiteness
- presupposition projection
- conditionals
- modality
- anaphora
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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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- logic
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- 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
File: 24-921-spring-2007.zip
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- semantics of aspect
File: 24-910-spring-2003.zip
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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: 24-954-fall-2006.zip
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- linguistics and philosophy
- context-dependency
- presupposition
- implicature
- context-change
- focus and topic
- division of labor
- semantics
- pragmatics
- quantification
- definiteness
- presupposition projection
- conditionals
- modality
- anaphora
File: 24-973-spring-2009.zip
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- 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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- context-dependency
- presupposition
- implicature
- context-change
- focus and topic
- division of labor
- semantics
- pragmatics
- quantification
- definiteness
- presupposition projection
- conditionals
- modality
- anaphora
File: Be_Articulate.pdf
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- context-dependency
- presupposition
- implicature
- context-change
- focus and topic
- division of labor
- semantics
- pragmatics
- quantification
- definiteness
- presupposition projection
- conditionals
- modality
- anaphora
File: Hagstrom2003-glot.pdf
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- context-dependency
- presupposition
- implicature
- context-change
- focus and topic
- division of labor
- semantics
- pragmatics
- quantification
- definiteness
- presupposition projection
- conditionals
- modality
- anaphora
File: MIT24_973s09_slide01.pdf
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- 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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- 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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- 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
File: MIT24_973s09_read01.pdf
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- 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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This OER is part of OCW: Topics in Linguistics Theory
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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
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