<p>Lecture, four hours. Requisites: courses 200C, 201C. Introduction of developments in ontology of formal semantics, including plurals as formal object, events, situations, times, and degrees. Presentation of empirical motivation for these developments, and some cross-domain parallels supporting them. S/U or letter grading.</p>

Linguistics

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College of Letters and Science

The department focuses on the scientific study of language in all aspects; programs emphasize linguistic theory in combination with fieldwork, experimentation, and computational methods.

General Catalog

Semantic Theory III

LING 222

2 or 4 units