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24.933 Language and Its Structure III: Semantics and Pragmatics
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Graduate (Spring)
(Subject meets with 24.903)
Prereq: 24.900, 24.9000, or permission of instructor
Units: 3-0-9
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Introduction to fundamental concepts in semantic and pragmatic theory. Basic issues of form and meaning in natural languages. Ambiguities of structure and of meaning. Compositionality. Word meaning. Quantification and logical form. Contexts: indexicality, discourse, presupposition and conversational implicature. Students taking graduate version complete different assignments.
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