Takanobu Nakamura

Teaching

Tokyo Metropolitan University

Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics (undergraduate) Intensive Lecture, Summer 2022

- Content: Count/mass and plurals, Semantic variation in count/mass, Davidsonian events and telicity, Possible worlds and modality, Semantic variation in modals, Scalar implicature and informativity, Presupposition, Anaphora, Uniqueness definites and semantic variation

University of Edinburgh

Current Issues in Semantics and Pragmatics (postgraduates and honours) Spring 2020

- Guest lecture on the semantics of mass/count distinction. (Became an online optional discussion session due to COVID-19)

Tutorials

Introduction to Syntax (postgraduates and honours) Fall 2018, 2019, 2020

LEL2A Linguistic Theory and the Structure of English (pre-honours) Fall 2017, 2018

LEL2D Cross Linguistic Variation: Limits and Theories (pre-honours) Spring 2019, 2020, 2021

LEL2E Structure and History of European Languages (pre-honours) Spring 2017

Logic 1 (pre-honours) Spring 2017, 2018