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The following pictures may help you.
The following pictures may help you.


[[File:Everyone_loves_someone_1.jpeg|200px|thumb|left|One Reading]]
[[File:Everyone_loves_someone_1.jpeg|200px|thumb|left|One Reading]] <br/ >


[[File:Everyone_loves_someone_2.jpeg|200px|thumb|left|Another Reading]]  
[[File:Everyone_loves_someone_2.jpeg|200px|thumb|left|Another Reading]] <br/ >
 
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[[Solutions_Quantifiers3_1|Check your solutions here]]
[[Solutions_Quantifiers3_1|Check your solutions here]]

Revision as of 23:12, 14 November 2013

The following material is an adapted form of material created by student participants of the project e-Learning Resources for Semantics (e-LRS).
Involved participants: AnKa, Katharina, Lara


Restricted Quantifiers

Find the right formula for the sentence below.

Some students who heard the concert were interviewed by Holmes.

[Some x: STUDENT (x)] HEAR (x, c) & INTERVIEW (h, x)
[Some x: STUDENT (x) & HEAR (x, c)] INTERVIEW (h, x)
Some x: STUDENT (x) & HEAR (x, c) & INTERVIEW (h, x)
[Some x: STUDENT (x) & INTERVIEW (h, x)] HEAR (x,c)


Different types of Quantifiers

Which type(s) of Quantifiers does the sentence below have?

Find the right formula for the sentence below. {Ramon signs every sculpture he makes.

existential
universal
restricted


2. Write down the corresponding logical formula(s). Check your solutions here.

Scopal Ambiguity

  1. In which way is the following sentence ambiguous?

Everyone loves someone. The following pictures may help you.

One Reading


Another Reading



Check your solutions here

  1. Write down the two possible logical forms. Check your solutions here

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