Notice about my MGU class: In case anyone outside of MGU might be interested in coming to my class this year, (Formal Semantics and Lexical Semantics), here is the time information ( Read more... )

Here is the announcement for my semantics course at MGU this spring. I don't know the meeting time yet. Sergei Tatevosov will schedule an organizational meeting before I arrive, to decide on the time (probably a mid-week evening time), and the course will start meeting in the week of Feb 18-22. (I will arrive in Moscow Feb 15.) Please tell anyone ( Read more... )

My MGU speckurs, Formal Semantics and Pragmatics, will meet on Friday afternoons. Lecture: 16:20-17:50, Seminar 18:00-19:30. First class meeting: Friday, February 20. I don't know the room yet, but they will know in the Kafedra.
       The website is up (see my previous post), and I will keep it updated with the schedule of what topics we will talk ( Read more... )

I finally have the preliminary version of my course website up. It's here: http://people.umass.edu/partee/MGU_2009/ . It has taken me some time to get even this very preliminary form posted, because I had to learn a new web page editor. I did it with Dreamweaver, which I have on a 30-day free trial from Adobe. But Stephen Anderson is advising me ( ( Read more... )

The organizational meeting for my MGU Speckurs "Formal semantics and formal pragmatics" will be this Thursday, Feb 12, at 14:10, somewhere in or near the OTiPL office; propusk required. It's just to determine the regular course meeting time; first real class will be next week. So it probably makes sense for only MGU students to come to the ( Read more... )

Спецкурс: Формальная семантика и формальная прагматика
Barbara H. Partee, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
МГУ, Feb-June 2009

Курс начинается с краткого введения в формальную семантику и в неформальную прагматику.
Затем будут рассмотрены некоторые центральные темы, связанные с развитием «динамической семантики» и формальной прагматики. Темы ( Read more... )