LING 131A — Semantics II
[ dl oc sn ]Prerequisite: LING 130b or COSI 135b, or permission of the instructor.
Continues the study of formal modeling of language meaning begun in LING 130, focusing especially on meaning and use of interrogative and imperative clauses, implicature and speech acts, information packaging, focus, and pragmatics of dialogue. Usually offered every second year.