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INTRODUCTION TO SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS(Fall 2014)

(revised: September 5, 2014)

LING 360 Birks 111 M W F 9h3510h25

INSTRUCTORS:

principal assistants

name: Brendan Gillon Daniel Goodhue

Oriana Kilbourn-Ceronoffice: rm 119 rm 326

rm 3011085 Dr. Penfield 1085 Dr. Penfield

tel. no.: 514 398 4868email: brendan.gillon@mcgill.ca daniel.goodhue@mail.mcgill.ca

oriana.kilbourn-ceron@mail.mcgill.ca

hours: Mn: 11h3512h25 Wd: 10h3511h25and by appointment and by appointment

COURSE MATERIAL:

required: chapters to be posted to MyCourses

supplementary: Semantics: A Reader, Oxford University Press,edited by Steven Davis and Brendan Gillon

SUMMARY:As its title indicates, this course introduces students to the basic concepts ofsemantics and pragmatics, many of which were developed by philosophers andlogicians. Contributors to this field include: Gottlob Frege (18481925) and

Edmund Husserl (18591938), Bertrand Russell (18721970), Alfred Tarski

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(19011983), Willard Quine (19082000), Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (19151975),Peter Geach (1916), Peter Strawson (19192006), Richard Montague (19301971), Max Cresswell (1939), Robert Stalnaker (1940), David Lewis (19412001), and many others. Except for logic (PHIL 210), knowledge of which isrequired for the course, the course is self-contained.

EVALUATION:

10 problem sets: 2% each

Midterm Exam: 35%(time and location to be announced.)

Final Exam: 45%(consult the universitys final examination schedule, when published.)

PROCEDURES:

Work may be submitted in either English or French.

NO LATE PROBLEM SETS WILL BE ACCEPTED. Each problemset must be turned in at the beginning of the class on its due date.

NO MAKE-UP EXAMINATIONS WILL BE GIVEN to anyone whodoes not have a certified medical excuse.

NO ANSWER TO ANY GRADED PROBLEM OR EXAMINATIONQUESTION WILL BE RE-ASSESSED, unless:

1. the answer is written in ink;

2. it has not been written over; and

3. the answer is clearly marked as such.

NOTE:In the event of extraordinary circumstances beyond the Universitys control,

the content or evaluation scheme may be subject to change.

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SYLLABUS

week1 1 Sep no class3 Sep Introduction: ch. 1 15 Sep Introduction: ch. 1 2.1

week2 8 Sep Introduction: ch. 1 2.210 Sep Introduction: ch. 1 312 Sep Basic Set Theory: ch. 2 13

week3 15 Sep Basic Set Theory: ch. 2 4517 Sep Basic Set Theory: ch. 2 619 Sep Basic English Grammar: ch. 3 2.33.1

week4 22 Sep Basic English Grammar: ch. 3 3.224 Sep Basic English Grammar: ch. 3 3.326 Sep Basic English Grammar: ch. 3 3.4.1

week5 29 Sep Basic English Grammar: ch. 3 3.4.241 Oct Language and Context: ch. 4 1 23 Oct Language and Context: ch. 4 3

week6 6 Oct Language and Context: ch. 4 48 Oct Semantics: A Reader: ch. 39

Language and Belief: ch. 5, 1 210 Oct Language and Belief: ch. 5, 3 4

week7 13 Oct no classSemantics: A Reader: ch. 40

15 Oct Propositional Logic: ch. 6 2 (up to 2.1.2)15 Oct MIDTERM date to be confirmed

time and location to be announced17 Oct Propositional Logic: ch. 6 2.1.3

week8 20 Oct Propositional Logic: ch. 6 2.3 (up to 2.3.3)22 Oct Propositional Logic: ch. 6 2.3.3524 Oct English Connectors: ch. 7 1 2

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week9 27 Oct English Connectors: ch. 7 3

29 Oct English Connectors: ch. 7431 Oct English Connectors: ch. 75

week10 3 Nov English Connectors: ch. 7 6 75 Nov Predicate Logic: ch. 81 2

Semantics: A Readerch. 317 Nov Predicate Logic: ch. 83 4

week11 10 Nov English Grammatical Predicates: ch. 912.112 Nov English Grammatical Predicates: ch. 92.22.414 Nov English Grammatical Predicates: ch. 93.1

week12 17 Nov English Grammatical Predicates: ch. 93.2

19 Nov Quantificational Logic: ch. 10 121 Nov Quantificational Logic: ch. 10 3.1.4

week13 24 Nov Quantificational Logic: ch. 10 3.226 Nov Quantificational Logic: ch. 10 4

Semantics: A Readerch. 2328 Nov tba

week14 1 Dec tba3 Dec review

McGill University values academic integrity. Therefore all students must un-derstand the meaning and consequences of cheating, plagiarism and otheracademic offences under the code of student conduct and disciplinary proce-dures. (See www.mcgill.ca/integrity for more information.)

LUniversite McGill attache une haute importance a lhonnetete academique.Il incombe par consequence a tous les etudiants de comprendre ce que lonentend par tricherie, plagiat et autres infractions academiques, ainsi que lesconsequences que peuvent avoir de telles actions, selon le Code de conduite deletudiant et des procedures disciplinaires. (Pour de plus amples renseigne-ments, veuillez consulter le site www.mcgill.ca/integrity.)

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