Intro to Semantics

Unfortunately, this class was absolutely stultifying. The main problem with it was that it was a first-year class, so it moved at a snail's pace and was designed to molly-coddle the innocent and naive freshers' fragile egos.

Selected Topics from the Syllabus

• Signs, symbols, and communication
• Varieties of linguistic meaning
• Basic logical notions
• Words and their meanings
• Literal and non-literal meanings
• Compositionality
• Meaning and context