Upon successful completion of this course, each student should be able to:
describe the following semantic-pragmatic phenomena: anaphora, scope, accessibility, quantification, discourse relations, coherence.
illustrate donkey-sentences and comment on how they pose problems for sentence-based semantic frameworks.
elaborate at least one theory of discourse structure or discourse coherence
give natural-language examples of anaphoric expressions of time and modality.
identify abstract discourse objects in a given text.
build a discourse representation structure (DRS) for a given text.
form lambda-DRSs for morpho-syntactic categories in simple sentences.