Focuses on the compositional semantics of sentences. Introduces set theory, propositional logic, and predicate logic as tools and goes on to investigate the empirical linguistic issues of presuppositions, quantification, scope, and polarity. Points out parallelisms between the nominal and the verbal domains.
Linguistics (Undergraduate) 4 credits - 15 Weeks
NYU Department: Liberal Arts & Sciences, Societies & the Social Sciences, Undergraduate
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