MM3: Cross-Linguistic Semantics

Course schedule + requirements
Literature

• 1. Introduction: Universals & Variation

• 2. The Lexicon and the Level of Presuppositions

• 3. Composition and (Non-)Saturation

• 4. Quantification: D-quantifiers, Modifiers, A-quantifiers and Q-Verbs

• 5. [+/- distributive] universal quantifiers and wh-DISJ-expressions

• 6. Numerals, Number and NP-meanings

• 7. (In)definiteness (with a special focus on Hausa) (Compositionality. Sets and Functions)
  

• 8. Comparatives

• 9. Negation: Negative Indefinites & Negative Concord

• 10. Tense/Aspect/Mood

• 11.Mood/Modals/Evidentials

• 12. ?? Conditionals ??