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Additivity, singular definites, accommodation, non-monotone quantifiers, desire predicates (M-I-T)

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Course:Topics in Semantics: Negative Polarity Items (M-I-T)
Discipline:Social Sciences
Institute:MIT
Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Luka Crnic
Level:Graduate

Topics in Semantics: Negative Polarity Items (M-I-T)

Additivity, singular definites, accommodation, non-monotone quantifiers, desire predicates (M-I-T)
Conjunction, type-shifting, event semantics, thematic roles, exhaustivity (M-I-T)
Entailment, entailment-reversal, non-monotonicity, negated DPs (M-I-T)
Exceptives, approximatives, reconstruction, universal modals, mass vs. count nouns (M-I-T)
Existence presupposition, constraints and requirements on pruning (M-I-T)
Existential modals, exhaustification, revision of the ConditionÂ (M-I-T)
Extension of the entailment relation, decomposing definites, partitives, distributivity operator (M-I-T)
Intervention, minimizers, and variationÂ (M-I-T)
Modified numeral quantifiers with distributive vs. collective predicates, maximal informativity, preview of the explanationÂ (M-I-T)
Other modal environments, Hindi NPIs, probability, and explanation (M-I-T)
Strawson entailment,Â surprise,Â only, singular definite descriptionsÂ (M-I-T)

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