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Topics in Semantics: Negative Polarity Items
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- Instructor
- Prof. Luka Crnic
- Term
- Fall 2018
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 11 other files · 2 web pages
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- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 24.979 Topics in Semantics: Negative Polarity Items, Fall 2018, Prof. Luka Crnic — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Course outline
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Lecture 4: Strawson entailment and definite descriptions
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Lecture 5: Strawson entailment and definite descriptions, cont’d
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Lecture 6: Strawson entailment and definite descriptions, cont’d
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Lecture 7: Modality, free choice, and exhaustification
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Lecture 8: Modality, free choice, and exhaustification, cont’d
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Lecture 9: Modality, free choice, and exhaustification, cont’d
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Lecture 10: Towards an explanation
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Lecture 11: Non-monotonicity and some challenges
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Lecture 12: Non-monotonicity and some challenges, cont’d
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