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A cartoon illustration of structural ambiguity. (Image courtesy of MIT OpenCourseWare.)
Prof. Kai von Fintel
24.903 / 24.933
Spring 2005
Undergraduate
This course gives an introduction to the science of linguistic meaning. There are two branches to this discipline: semantics, the study of conventional, "compositional meaning", and pragmatics, the study of interactional meaning. There are other contributaries: philosophy, logic, syntax, and psychology. We will try to give you an understanding of the concepts of semantics and pragmatics and of some of the technical tools that we use.
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