Mini-course 'Transitive Intensional Verbs' (DEC-ENS).

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Mini-course Transitive Intensional Verbs

Friederike Moltmann
Fall 2011-2012, DEC (ENS)
Thursdays 16.30-19.00, Pavillon Jardin, 29 rue d’Ulm, Salle de réunion LSCP

Attention change of dates:
December 1, 8, new date: 13 (to be confirmed), January 12 (!), January 19  

Program

Session 1 : December 1
- Kinds of transitive intensional verbs
- Criteria for transitive intensional verbs
- The shared objects of verbs of absence, transaction verbs, and epistemic verbs
Reading:
- Moltmann, F (1997): 'Intensional verbs and quantifiers'. NLS 5.1., 1-52.
- ------------- (2008): 'Intensional Verbs and their Intentional Objects'. NLS
16.3., 239-270

Session 2 : December 8
- Continuation :  The shared objects of transitive intensional verbs
- Transitive intensional verbs and their nominalizations
- Transitive intensional verbs and the status of have
Reading:
- Harves, S. / R. Kayne: 'Having need and needing have'. Linguistic Inquiry (to
appear).

Session 3 : December 13 (date to be confirmed)
- Evidence for clausal complements
- Syntactic differences between clausal complements
Reading:
- den Dikken, M., R. Larson and P. Ludlow (1996) 'Intensional 'Transitive' Verbs
and Concealed Complement Clauses'. In Readings in the Philosophy of Language P.
Ludlow  (ed.), Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press 1997, 1041–1053.
- Schwarz, F. (2006): 'On NEEDING propositions and LOOKING FOR properties'. In:
M. Gibson, J. Howell (eds), SALT XVI 259-276, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University.

Session 4 : January 12
Intensional verbs and intentional verbs

Session 5 : January 19
Intensionality effects with 'extensional' transitive verbs
The semantics of verbs of description
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