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Lecture Notes

Below is a link to the old lecture notes for the class, followed by a table of contents. Links to two revised chapters are included in the table of contents.

Old Lecture Notes (PDF)

Part 1: Modality

Chapter 1: Intensionality
Chapter 2: Modality (PDF)
Chapter 3: Conditionals
Chapter 4: Ordering
Chapter 5: De Re -- De Dicto (PDF)
Chapter 6: The Third Reading
Chapter 7: The Argument Structure of Modals
Chapter 8: Intensional Transitives

Part 2: Tense and Aspect

Chapter 9: Temporality
Chapter 10: The Referential Analysis of Tense
Chapter 11: Intervals
Chapter 12: Temporal Adverbials
Chapter 13: The Perfect
Chapter 14: Imperfects

Part 3: Questions

Part 4: Plurals

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Lecture Notes