How do we combine words to build full propositions? How do we account for what people believe, not just what's definitely true? In this week's episode, we talk about type theory: how we can define terms by how they relate to the world and each other, what the difference is between sense and reference, and how we can use possible worlds to work out what people believe.

This is Topic #83!

This week's tag language: Estonian!

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Sources:
The three main sources for this episode:
Irene Heim & Angelica Kratzer's textbook, Semantics in Generative Grammar
Anders Schoubye's online lecture notes ([ Ссылка ])
Kai von Fintel's Intensional Semantics online textbook/lecture notes ([ Ссылка ]).

Looking forward to next time!

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