Adrian Brasoveanu

Assistant Professor, Linguistics Department, UC Santa Cruz
Linguistics, UCSC, Stevenson Faculty Services,
1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
email: abrsvn at gmail.com
web page: http://abrsvn.googlepages.com/index.html
CV (pdf)

TEACHING – FALL 2008:

  •  Seminar in Semantics, Graduate
Linguistics 239, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz
Time: TBA ¤¤ Location: TBA
Office hours: TBA & by email appointment
Description: coming soon.
Syllabus: coming soon.

TEACHING – SPRING 2008:

  • Semantics, Undergraduate
Linguist 130A (Introduction to Linguistic Meaning) & Linguist 130C (Logic Laboratory), Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
Time: Ling 130A - MonWedFri 10:00-10:50 AM & Ling 130C - TBA ¤¤ Location: CummsArt 4
Office hours: TBA & by email appointment
Textbook: Introduction to Natural Language Semantics (CSLI Lecture Notes), Henriëtte de Swart

TEACHING – FALL 2007:

  •  Seminar in Semantics: Indefinites, Graduate
Linguistics 237, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
Time: TBA ¤¤ Location: TBA
Office hours: TBA & by email appointment
Description: Static and dynamic approaches to the semantics of indefinites (and definites). Their referential vs. quantificational status, their scopal properties (exceptional wide scope), their interaction with modal anaphora & quantification. Indefinites cross-linguistically, types of indefinites (argumental vs. predicative, bare nouns, NPI’s, free choice, wh-indefinites, specific indefinites etc.) and their semantic / pragmatic properties. Indefinite-like items in the modal, temporal / aspectual & degree domains.

TEACHING – SPRING 2007:

  • Pragmatics, Undergraduate
Linguistics 117, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz
Time: TuTh 4–5:45 ¤¤ Location: Engineering Two, 194
Office hours: TBA & by email appointment
Textbook: Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding (Tutorial Essays in Cognitive Science Series), Georgia Green
Linguistics 265, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz
Time: TuTh 10–11:45 ¤¤ Location: TBA
Office hours: TBA & by email appointment

TEACHING – WINTER 2007:

  • Introduction to Linguistics, Undergraduate

Linguistics 20, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz
Time: MWF 2-3:10 ¤¤ Location: Baskin Engineering 152
Office hours: TBA & by email appointment

TEACHING – FALL 2006:

  • Introduction to Dynamic Semantics, Graduate, co-taught with Sam Cumming

Invited mini-course, Dynamic Semantics Workshop, Institutt for filosofi, ide- og kunsthistorie og klassiske (IFIKK), University of Oslo ¤¤ syllabus, some of the slides, the corresponding handout

  • Introduction to the Study of Language, Undergraduate
Linguistics 101, Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University ¤¤ handouts for the presupposition and conversational implicature (part 1 & part 2) lectures

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