Handout
Today we talked about compositional semantics. I introduced three different kinds of adjectives—intersective, subsective (or relative intersection), and non-intersective—and we discussed their properties. We then looked at how truth conditions for sentences can be formalized and compared the effects of quantificational determiners (every, some, no) on truth conditions. This was a bit of a whirlwind tour of compositional semantics, and if you missed class or want to review I’d suggest taking a look at the readings for the semantics unit.
Reminder: Homework #7 is due on Monday.