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| Dates |
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Topics |
Readings |
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Aug 25 [Th]
Handout
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10:00-11:00 |
Introduction and formal basics
Varieties of modal expressions
Sets, relations, functions
Properties of relations
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Partee et al., Ch. 1-3
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11:15-12:15 |
Modal logic
Model theory
Accessibility relations
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Gamut vol. 2, Ch. 1, 2.1-2 |
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14:00-15:00 |
Modal logic (continued)
Frames
Modal systems
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Gamut vol. 2, Ch. 2.3
[Hughes and Cresswell Ch. 1-3, 10]
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15:15-16:15 |
First-order modal logic
Opaque contexts
De dicto and de re readings
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Gamut, vol. 2, Ch. 3
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Aug 26 [Fr]
Handout
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10:00-11:00 |
Kratzer
Modal bases
Ordering sources
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Kratzer (1981) |
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11:15-12:15 |
Kratzer (continued)
Relative and graded modality
If-clauses as restrictors
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14:00-15:00 |
Root and epistemic modality
Semantic and syntactic distinctions
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Brennan 1993, Ch. 1 (esp. 1.2, 1.5)
Wurmbrand 1999
[Bhatt 1998; Butler 2003] |
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15:15-16:15 |
Further issues
Doubly modalized conditionals
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Frank 1996, pp. 47-55
[Zvolenszky (2002)]
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Aug 28 [Su]
Handout I
Handout II
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10:00-11:00 |
Time and modality I
Branching time
Truth and future reference
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Thomason 1984, pp. 135-147
[Thomason 1970] |
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11:15-12:15 |
Time and modality II
Historical necessity
Branching models and T×W-models
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[Condoravdi 2002] |
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14:00-15:00 |
Tense in conditionals I
Epistemic and metaphysical readings
Compositionality
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Kaufmann 2005 |
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15:15-16:15 |
Tense in conditionals II
If-clauses as modifiers
Compositionality
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