Introduction to compositional semantics
How can we build up the meaning of sentences from the meaning of words? In this module, we will learn how to translate words into expressions in lambda calculus. The material we cover will be essential to anyone wishing to work in formal semantics or the syntax-semantics interface.
(I taught this module as part of the UCL Linguistics Autumn School 2023, which I co-organised with Yiling Huo.)
Introduction to dynamic semantics
How does language refer to entities in the real world? How do anaphors like pronouns refer back to their antecedents? The material we cover will be relevant to those interested in reference and anaphora in semantics, sentence processing or computational linguistics.