Material Detail
24.910 Topics in Linguistic Theory: Propositional Attitudes
This course explores topics related to the representation and expression of propositional attitudes (e.g. belief, knowledge, and desires) and speech acts (e.g. saying and asking) in natural language. The main focus will be on semantics of predicates such as believe, know, want, say, ask, etc. Other topics will include the syntax of main and embedded clauses and formal representation of the pragmatics of conversation. The course provides practice in written and oral communication.
Quality
- User Rating
- Comments
- Learning Exercises
- Bookmark Collection (1) Bookmark Collections
- Course ePortfolios
- Accessibility Info
More about this material
- Mobile Compatibility:
- Not specified at this time
- Language:
- English
- Cost Involved:
- No
- Source Code Available:
- Unknown
- Accessibility Information Available:
- Unknown
- Creative Commons:
-
This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
