Courses:

Below is a link to the old lecture notes for the class, followed by the Spring 2005 version of the lecture notes, entitled Intensional Semantics. A link to the first six chapters is available below. Individual links to these chapters are included in the table of contents below.

Old Lecture Notes (PDF)

Intensional Semantics (first six chapters) (PDF)

Part 1: Modality

• Chapter 1: Intensionality (PDF)
• Chapter 2: Attitudes (PDF)
• Chapter 3: Modality (PDF)
• Chapter 4: Conditionals (PDF)
• Chapter 5: Ordering (PDF)
• Chapter 6: De Re -- De Dicto (PDF)
• Chapter 7: The Argument Structure of Modals
• Chapter 8: Intensional Transitives

Part 2: Tense and Aspect

• Chapter 9: Temporality
• Chapter 10: The Referential Analysis of Tense
• Chapter 11: Intervals
• Chapter 12: Temporal Adverbials
• Chapter 13: The Perfect
• Chapter 14: Imperfects

Part 3: Questions

Part 4: Plurals