This course explores topics related to the representation and expression of propositional attitudes (e.g. belief, knowledge, and desires) and speech acts (e.g. saying and asking) in natural language
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This course includes
Hours of videos
277 years, 9 months
Units & Quizzes
10
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Certificate of Completion
The main focus will be on semantics of predicates such as believe, know, want, say, ask, etc. Other topics will include the syntax of main and embedded clauses and formal representation of the pragmatics of conversation. The course provides practice in written and oral communication.
Course Currilcum
- Introduction and preview Unlimited
- Semantics 1: possible world semantics for attitudes Unlimited
- Semantics 2: presupposition and sequence of tense Unlimited
- Semantics 3: self-locating attitudes and logophors Unlimited
- Syntax 1: CP structure and embedded clauses Unlimited
- Syntax 2: control and raising Unlimited
- Pragmatics 1: evidentials and expressive meaning Unlimited
- Pragmatics 2: conversation and common ground, context set, assertion, presupposition, and applications Unlimited
- Pragmatics 2: conversation and common ground and presupposition (cont.) Unlimited
- Pragmatics 2: presupposition and embedding verbs (cont.) Unlimited
