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This course is a sequel of the first course on Intensional Semantics that took place in the winter term. Topic of this class is intensionality, the ways in which language allows us to talk not only about what is going on right now and in our reality, but also about how things were or will be, and how they might or should be. We will cover central topics such as belief and belief attribution, tense, indirect speech, sequence of tenses etc. The first part of the course will be devoted to a brief recapitulation of the topic and is based on the very gentle yet formally precise introduction Intensional Semantics of von Fintel and Heim (available online). In the second part of the course, we will read selected papers that will be made available to participants. The course is open to participants of the first course and newcomers alike. Newcomers will get access to the material of the first course. Note that this class presupposes knowledge of formal semantics (the typed lambda-calculus) as it is introduced in any introductory textbook on the topic, e.g. in Dowty, Wall and Peters (1979) or Heim and Kratzer (1998). |
