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Syllabus
Convention
Speech acts
Speaker meaning
Diagnosing inference
Theories of meaning
Formal preliminaries
Models
Applicative categorial grammar
Verbs
Coordinators
Adjectives
Pronouns
Quantification

About

This site contains materials the course Introduction to Semantics given by Julian Grove at the University of Florida during the Fall 2025 semester.

About the instructor

Julian Grove is an assistant professor in the Linguistics Department. Long story short, he is interested in combining computational tools from Bayesian data analysis and programming language theory and bringing them to semantics. You can find out more about his research interests by checking out his papers, slides, or perhaps even his cv.

About the site

The site itself is built using Quarto. The source files for this site are available on github at juliangrove/intro-semantics.

License

Introduction to Semantics by Julian Grove is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Based on materials at https://github.com/juliangrove/intro-semantics.

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This site contains materials the course *Introduction to Semantics* given by [Julian Grove](http://juliangrove.github.io/) at the [University of Florida](https://lin.ufl.edu/) during the Fall 2025 semester.

## About the instructor

[Julian Grove](http://juliangrove.github.io/) is an assistant professor in the [Linguistics Department](https://lin.ufl.edu/).
Long story short, he is interested in combining computational tools from Bayesian data analysis and programming language theory and bringing them to semantics.
You can find out more about his research interests by checking out his [papers](https://juliangrove.github.io/papers.html), [slides](https://juliangrove.github.io/slides.html), or perhaps even his [cv](https://juliangrove.github.io/cv.html).

## About the site

The site itself is built using [Quarto](https://quarto.org/).
The source files for this site are available on github at [`juliangrove/intro-semantics`](https://github.com/juliangrove/intro-semantics.git).

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