Adrian Brasoveanu Assistant Professor, Linguistics Department, UC Santa Cruz
Linguistics, UCSC, Stevenson Faculty Services, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064	email: abrsvn at gmail.com webpage: http://people.ucsc.edu/~abrsvn	CV (pdf)
TEACHING – Spring 2009: Semantics II (Ling 116, UCSC), Undergraduate Senior Research Seminar (Ling 190, UCSC), Undergraduate TEACHING – WINTER 2009: Semantics B, Graduate Linguistics 232, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz Time: MW 2-3:45 ¤¤ Location: The Cave Office hours: TBA & by email appointment Description: The goal of the course is to give the participants the technical skills to understand the Montagovian solution to the problem of compositionality -- that is, to understand how the meaning of a natural language expression is a function of the meanings of its subexpressions and the way they are syntactically put together. To put it differently, we will learn the basics of rigorously designing a syntax-semantics interface in the Montagovian tradition. Our specific goal is to be able to read Montague's PTQ and Hendriks 1993 Ch.1 by the end of the quarter. Our textbook is Dowty et al 1981 "Introduction to Montague Semantics". The readings for the entire course are available on the WebCT page for the course, which you can access by logging into WebCT and selecting this link: LING-232 Semantics B, #37056. TEACHING – FALL 2008: Seminar in Semantics: Decomposing Quantification, Graduate Linguistics 239, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz Time: 1:00-4:30 ¤¤ Location: The Cave Office hours: TBA & by email appointment Description: The seminar will examine phenomena like correlatives across domains (individuals, times & eventualities, possible worlds and degrees) and the interpretation of same / different in quantificational contexts that support the idea that natural language quantification is a composite notion, to be decomposed / analyzed in terms of discourse reference to dependencies that is multiply constrained by the various components that make up a quantifier. We will examine a variety of languages and a variety of static and dynamic approaches to these phenomena. For a more detailed description of the project of decomposing quantification, see Decomposing Quantification. Course materials: Handout 1 & Syllabus: Cross- & Intra-Sentential Evidence for Decomposing Quantification Handout 2: Quantification in First-Order Logic Handout 3: Intro to DPL slides 6up Handout 4: DPL & Dynamic Generalized Quantification Handout 5: Compositional DRT & Dynamic Generalized Quantification Handout 6: Carlson 1987 [MATT] Handout 7: Barker 2007 [RYAN] [Handout 8: Brasoveanu 2008] Handout 9: Moens & Steedman 1988 [JUDITH] Handout 10: Webber 1988 [ROBERT] Handout 11: Roberts 1989 [SCOTT] TEACHING – SPRING 2008: Semantics, Undergraduate Linguist 130A (Introduction to Linguistic Meaning) & Linguist 130C (Logic Laboratory), Department of Linguistics, Stanford University Time: Ling 130A - MonWedFri 10:00-10:50 AM & Ling 130C - TBA ¤¤ Location: CummsArt 4 Office hours: TBA & by email appointment Textbook: Introduction to Natural Language Semantics (CSLI Lecture Notes), Henriëtte de Swart TEACHING – FALL 2007: Seminar in Semantics: Indefinites, Graduate Linguistics 237, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University Time: TBA ¤¤ Location: TBA Office hours: TBA & by email appointment Description: Static and dynamic approaches to the semantics of indefinites (and definites). Their referential vs. quantificational status, their scopal properties (exceptional wide scope), their interaction with modal anaphora & quantification. Indefinites cross-linguistically, types of indefinites (argumental vs. predicative, bare nouns, NPI’s, free choice, wh-indefinites, specific indefinites etc.) and their semantic / pragmatic properties. Indefinite-like items in the modal, temporal / aspectual & degree domains. TEACHING – SPRING 2007: Pragmatics, Undergraduate Linguistics 117, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz Time: TuTh 4–5:45 ¤¤ Location: Engineering Two, 194 Office hours: TBA & by email appointment Textbook: Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding (Tutorial Essays in Cognitive Science Series), Georgia Green Math Foundations, Graduate ¤¤ brief course description Linguistics 265, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz Time: TuTh 10–11:45 ¤¤ Location: TBA Office hours: TBA & by email appointment TEACHING – WINTER 2007: Introduction to Linguistics, Undergraduate Linguistics 20, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz Time: MWF 2-3:10 ¤¤ Location: Baskin Engineering 152 Office hours: TBA & by email appointment TEACHING – FALL 2006: Introduction to Dynamic Semantics, Graduate, co-taught with Sam Cumming Invited mini-course, Dynamic Semantics Workshop, Institutt for filosofi, ide- og kunsthistorie og klassiske (IFIKK), University of Oslo ¤¤ syllabus, some of the slides, the corresponding handout Introduction to the Study of Language, Undergraduate Linguistics 101, Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University ¤¤ handouts for the presupposition and conversational implicature (part 1 & part 2) lectures	Site Index HOME Papers: Semantics & Pragmatics Papers: OT Dissertation Teaching
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Adrian Brasoveanu

Assistant Professor, Linguistics Department, UC Santa Cruz

Linguistics, UCSC, Stevenson Faculty Services,
1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064

email: abrsvn at gmail.com
webpage: http://people.ucsc.edu/~abrsvn

TEACHING – Spring 2009:

Semantics II (Ling 116, UCSC), Undergraduate
Senior Research Seminar (Ling 190, UCSC), Undergraduate

TEACHING – WINTER 2009:

Semantics B, Graduate

Linguistics 232, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz
Time: MW 2-3:45 ¤¤ Location: The Cave
Office hours: TBA & by email appointment
Description: The goal of the course is to give the participants the technical skills to understand the Montagovian solution to the problem of compositionality -- that is, to understand how the meaning of a natural language expression is a function of the meanings of its subexpressions and the way they are syntactically put together. To put it differently, we will learn the basics of rigorously designing a syntax-semantics interface in the Montagovian tradition. Our specific goal is to be able to read Montague's PTQ and Hendriks 1993 Ch.1 by the end of the quarter. Our textbook is Dowty et al 1981 "Introduction to Montague Semantics". The readings for the entire course are available on the WebCT page for the course, which you can access by logging into WebCT and selecting this link: LING-232 Semantics B, #37056.

TEACHING – FALL 2008:

Seminar in Semantics: Decomposing Quantification, Graduate

Linguistics 239, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz
Time: 1:00-4:30 ¤¤ Location: The Cave
Office hours: TBA & by email appointment
Description: The seminar will examine phenomena like correlatives across domains (individuals, times & eventualities, possible worlds and degrees) and the interpretation of same / different in quantificational contexts that support the idea that natural language quantification is a composite notion, to be decomposed / analyzed in terms of discourse reference to dependencies that is multiply constrained by the various components that make up a quantifier. We will examine a variety of languages and a variety of static and dynamic approaches to these phenomena.
For a more detailed description of the project of decomposing quantification, see Decomposing Quantification.
Course materials:
Handout 1 & Syllabus: Cross- & Intra-Sentential Evidence for Decomposing Quantification
Handout 2: Quantification in First-Order Logic
Handout 3: Intro to DPL slides 6up
Handout 4: DPL & Dynamic Generalized Quantification
Handout 5: Compositional DRT & Dynamic Generalized Quantification
Handout 6: Carlson 1987 [MATT]
Handout 7: Barker 2007 [RYAN]
[Handout 8: Brasoveanu 2008]
Handout 9: Moens & Steedman 1988 [JUDITH]
Handout 10: Webber 1988 [ROBERT]
Handout 11: Roberts 1989 [SCOTT]

TEACHING – SPRING 2008:

Semantics, Undergraduate

Linguist 130A (Introduction to Linguistic Meaning) & Linguist 130C (Logic Laboratory), Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
Time: Ling 130A - MonWedFri 10:00-10:50 AM & Ling 130C - TBA ¤¤ Location: CummsArt 4
Office hours: TBA & by email appointment
Textbook: Introduction to Natural Language Semantics (CSLI Lecture Notes), Henriëtte de Swart

TEACHING – FALL 2007:

Seminar in Semantics: Indefinites, Graduate

Linguistics 237, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
Time: TBA ¤¤ Location: TBA
Office hours: TBA & by email appointment
Description: Static and dynamic approaches to the semantics of indefinites (and definites). Their referential vs. quantificational status, their scopal properties (exceptional wide scope), their interaction with modal anaphora & quantification. Indefinites cross-linguistically, types of indefinites (argumental vs. predicative, bare nouns, NPI’s, free choice, wh-indefinites, specific indefinites etc.) and their semantic / pragmatic properties. Indefinite-like items in the modal, temporal / aspectual & degree domains.

TEACHING – SPRING 2007:

Pragmatics, Undergraduate

Linguistics 117, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz
Time: TuTh 4–5:45 ¤¤ Location: Engineering Two, 194
Office hours: TBA & by email appointment
Textbook: Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding (Tutorial Essays in Cognitive Science Series), Georgia Green

Math Foundations, Graduate ¤¤ brief course description

Linguistics 265, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz
Time: TuTh 10–11:45 ¤¤ Location: TBA
Office hours: TBA & by email appointment

TEACHING – WINTER 2007:

Introduction to Linguistics, Undergraduate

Linguistics 20, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz
Time: MWF 2-3:10 ¤¤ Location: Baskin Engineering 152
Office hours: TBA & by email appointment

TEACHING – FALL 2006:

Introduction to Dynamic Semantics, Graduate, co-taught with Sam Cumming

Invited mini-course, Dynamic Semantics Workshop, Institutt for filosofi, ide- og kunsthistorie og klassiske (IFIKK), University of Oslo ¤¤ syllabus, some of the slides, the corresponding handout

Introduction to the Study of Language, Undergraduate

Linguistics 101, Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University ¤¤ handouts for the presupposition and conversational implicature (part 1 & part 2) lectures

Adrian Brasoveanu

TEACHING – Spring 2009:

Semantics II (Ling 116, UCSC), Undergraduate

Senior Research Seminar (Ling 190, UCSC), Undergraduate

TEACHING – WINTER 2009:

Semantics B, Graduate

TEACHING – FALL 2008:

TEACHING – SPRING 2008:

TEACHING – FALL 2007:

TEACHING – SPRING 2007:

TEACHING – WINTER 2007:

Introduction to Linguistics, Undergraduate

TEACHING – FALL 2006:

Invited mini-course, Dynamic Semantics Workshop, Institutt for filosofi, ide- og kunsthistorie og klassiske (IFIKK), University of Oslo ¤¤ syllabus, some of the slides, the corresponding handout

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