Description: This course is an introduction to truth conditional model-theoretic semantics for natural languages. The focus is on modelling the semantic intuitions of human beings, much like the theory of syntax models intuitions about possible sentences. Semantics being an interdisciplinary discipline, the course is designed to appeal to students of varied backgrounds in the language sciences.

• to get acquainted with a number of issues in natural language semantics;
• to develop the conceptual tools needed for the analysis of meaning.
• to investigate consequences of results of this program for our understanding of the nature of language.

• Heim I. and A Kratzer (1997) Semantics in Generative Grammar, Blackwell.
• Ronnie Cann (1993) Formal Semantics: An introduction. Cambridge University Press.
• Ref.: Chierchia G. and S. McConnel-Ginet (1990) Meaning and Grammar: An Introduction to Semantics. The MIT Press.