Welcome to Linguistics 372L, Syntax and Semantics: The Structure and Meaning of Utterances, Spring 2014.

Here is the practice midterm exam. 

Here's some information by Stephen Wechsler on graphics programs to draw tree diagrams.

Below is the current schedule. Homework is due each week at the beginning of class on Tuesdays. Reading of book material, as well as one to three questions on each reading (by email) are due on Thursdays at 11am. You are to prepare the readings before class, since the class will serve as a discussion forum and Q&A (see syllabus for more details).

This schedule is subject to change! Any changes will be announced in class. Always check this course website for the current version. Readings and assignments are from the course textbooks, Kroeger’s Analyzing Grammar (available as an eBook from the UT library) and Kate Kearns' Semantics, except those prepared by the professor and TA.

week	day	reading due	homework due
1. Jan	Tu 14	Ch. 1 Kroeger, Grammatical form. Reading guide
	Th 16	Ch. 3 Kroeger, Constituent structure. Reading guide Constituency criteria and tests Steps to identifying syntactic ambiguity
2.	Tu 21		Ex. Ch. 3 Kroeger, A, B, and 3A.
	Th 23	Ch. 1 Kearns, Introduction. Reading guide
3.	Tu 28		Ex. Ch. 3 Kroeger, 3B, 3C, and also this exercise (call it 3E).
	Th 30	Ch. 2, First Order Logic, sections 2.1-2.2. Reading guide
4. Feb	Tu 4		Ex. Ch. 2, A to D. Bonus: E.
	Th 6	Ch. 2, First Order Logic, sections 2.3 to end. Reading guide: see guide for first part of Ch. 2.
5.	Tu 11		Ex. Ch. 2, F,G, I. Bonus: K.
	Th 13	Ch. 3, Modality and Possible Worlds. Reading guide.
6.	Tu 18		Ex. Ch. 3, A to D. Bonus: E.
	Th 20	Ch. 4, Natural Language Quantifiers (excluding section 4.6) Reading guide.
7.	Tu 25		Ex. Ch. 4, A, B, C (1)-(6), and E. Bonus: C (7)-(9).
	Th 27	Midterm preparation, wrap-up and Q&A on the course Practice midterm exam.
8. Mar	Tu 4		Midterm in class
	Th 6	Ch. 5, Definite Descriptions (excluding section 5.5.5). Reading guide.
		Spring Break
9.	Tu 18		Ex. Ch. 5, see this page.
	Th 20	Ch. 6, Indefinite Descriptions, Plurals, … (excluding section 6.3). Reading guide.
10.	Tu 25		Ex. Ch. 6, A, D (argue for your answer), E (1, 3 and 5 only), G.
	Th 27	Ch. 7, Tense and Aspect. Reading guide.
11. Apr	Tu 1		Ex. Ch. 7, A, B, E, and J.
	Th 3	Ch. 8, Events. Reading guide.
12.	Tu 8		Ex. Ch. 8, A, B, C, and E.
	Th 10	Ch. 9, Aspectual Classes of Events. Reading guide.
13.	Tu 15		Ex. Ch. 9, 1, 5, and 6 in this document. IMPORTANT: in exercise 1, where it says "Section 8.2", it should say "Section 9.2", and ignore dynamicity. In exercise 6, consider only cases in (a) and (c) (The radiator rumbled / the radiator will rumble, The radiator exploded / the radiator will explode.).
	Th 17	Paul Grice, "Logic and Conversation", see Course Documents in Blackboard. check the article on implicatures in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (especially sections 1 and 2) for clarification of the concepts introduced in Grice's article.  Reading guide.
14.	Tu 22		See this page.
	Th 24	First four pages of Gottlob Frege, "On Sense and Reference", see Course Documents in Blackboard.  see section 3 of the article on Frege in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for clarification.  Reading guide.
15.	Tu 29		No homework due; we will review the homework for the Grice article in class.
May	Th 1	Review.