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Co-taught with AS.050.322. This course extends the material in AS.050.317 to cover advanced but central topics in semantic and pragmatic theory, focusing on intensional semantics (especially possible world semantics and situation semantics). Empirical domains of interest in this class include modality, tense, grammatical aspect, conditionals, attitude and speech reports, questions, and free choice phenomena. Three core theoretical issues addressed in this class are the nature of a compositional account of the above intensional phenomena, the representations of possibilities involved, and the role of the syntax/ semantics/pragmatics interface in such an account.