G61.2370 Semantics II
Fall 2001
This offering of Semantics II will be built on a set of papers that concern restricted quantification, context, and scope. Some of these have by now become classics and some represent current, controversial proposals. Student will be required to follow the readings from week to week, and to do roughly 5 assignments plus a paper or a take-home exam.
Anna Szabolcsi, 2000. Determiners and adverbs (in Semantics III in Fromkin, ed. Linguistics)
David Lewis, 1975. Adverbs of quantification (in Keenan, ed. Formal)
Angelika Kratzer, 1978. What must and can must and can mean (Linguistics and Philosophy)
Mats Rooth, 1995. A theory of focus interpretation (Natural Language Semantics)
Paul Dekker, 2001. On if and only (SALT XI)
Filippo Beghelli, Dorit Ben-Shalom, Anna Szabolcsi, 1997. Variation, distributivity, and the illusion of branching, Part I (in Ways of Scope Taking)
Anna Szabolcsi, 1997. Strategies for scope taking (in Ways of Scope Taking)
Anna Szabolcsi, 2000. Syntax of scope (in Baltin‹Collins, eds. Handbook)
Tanya Reinhart, 1997. Quantifier scope: How labor is divided between QR and choice functions (Linguistics and Philosophy)
Angelika Kratzer, 1998. Scope or pseudoscope: Are there wide scope indefinites? (in Rothstein, ed. Events)
Jason Stanley, Zoltan Gendler-Szabo, 2000. On quantifier domain restriction (Mind and Language)
Roger Schwarzschild, 2000. Singular indefinites (http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~tapuz/)
Last Modified: August 21, 2001
