LING 125, Fall 2005, Marcus Kracht and Terence Parsons

This page contains occasional material such as assignments and their solutions. The readng material, prepared by Terry Parsons, can be found on the ecampus webpage.

Additional Material

  1. A squib on c-command and scope. You may read this if you are interested. It is not required reading, but you may find this enlightening if you are interested in syntax as well.
  2. A squib on the division between semantics and pragmatics. I recommend you read this. It may clarify what the difference between them is and what pragmatic reasoning achieves and what not.
  3. A squib on logic and QR. I recommend you read this as well. I give some background in predicate logic and how to understand QR and relative clauses. The translation is done very explicitly, by a procedure that translates the structure into a string of our logical language.
  4. A squib on intensionality. It gives some background about possible worlds. If you are technically minded or want to get to study more about non-extensionality, try this out. Not required, but recommened.

Assignments

  1. Assignment 1 and Solution 1.
  2. Assignment 2 and Solution 2.
  3. Assignment 3 and Solution 3.
  4. Assignment 4 and Solution 4.
  5. Assignment 5 and Solution 5.
  6. Assignment 6 and Solution 6.
  7. Assignment 7 and Solution 7.
  8. Assignment 8 and Solution 8.

Midterms

  1. Answer key to the second midterm.