Fred Landman

  • Department of Linguistics
  • Tel Aviv University

Online Class Notes

Quantification and Modality

  1. 1a. Quantification - Part One - October 2021
  2. 1b. Quantification - Part Two -November 2021
  3. 2. Modality - January 2021
  4. 3. Boolean semantics for plurality - January 2023

Advanced Semantics

  1. 1. Functional type theory - spring 2021
  2. 1a. A cat, a rat and a bat
  3. 2. The lambda operator
  4. 3. Backward lambda conversion
  5. 4. Type shifting
  6. 4a. X bar syntax in short
  7. 5. Intensionality
  8. 6. Scope, abstraction, composition
  9. 7. Boolean semantics for plurality
  10. 7a. Iceberg semantics
  11. 8. Neo-davidsonian event semantics
  12. 9. The Adjectival Theory of Indefinites

Formal Languages

  1. 1. Strings, trees and rewrite grammars
  2. 2. Regular languages, grammars and automata
  3. 3. Context free grammars and push-down automata. Features and indices
  4. 4. Semilinear languages and Parikh's theorem
  5. 5. Context-freeness of natural languages
  6. 6. Semantic parsing of the verb cluster in Dutch and German
  7. 7. Tree Adjoining grammars
  8. 8. Categorial grammars
  9. 9. Semantic automata

Semantic Models

  1. 1a. Semantic Models - Title page and Content 2019
  2. 1b. Universal Algebra 2019
  3. 2. Semantics applications - Universal Algebra 2019
  4. 2a. Landman and Rothstein 2012 Part 1
  5. 2b. Landman and Rothstein 2012 Part 2
  6. 3. Lattices and Boolean algebras – 2019
  7. 4. Semantic applications of lattices

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