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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

Instructors of this Course

Associate Professor
Associate Professor

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