LING 108. Semantics Seminar

In this class we will take a close look at two related natural language semantic phenomena: temporality and modality. We will begin by examining some of the formal semantic literature on each of these topics separately, before investigating their interactions. We will particularly investigate: The effect of modality and embedding on temporal interpretation; the role of modality in de se and de reinterpretation and its possible effect on temporal interpretation; the modal inferences of aspectual and other temporal expressions; and the debate on whether predictive expressions like will are modal operators, temporal operators, or both.
Prerequisite: LING 040.
Social sciences.
1 credit.
Eligible for COGS
Catalog chapter: Linguistics
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/linguistics

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