To be lectured in Michaelmas 2017. Dates and times still to be arranged
(2) Readers may also find useful Chloë Brown's html
version of my 1a Computer Science Tripos Regular Languages and Finite
Automata notes. Answers to the exercises are supplied in links
that you can click on once you have done the exercises. Crouch's notes are designed for
computer science students, and as a result are probably more
mathematical and generally unforgiving than a linguistics student (who
after all may well be a humanities student!) would like. Basically
the only reason why they are here is that he is a mate of mine and
they are free!
Here are the notes from which I
will be lecturing this course. [They are work-in-progress as I write
this, in the long vac, so there is little point in downloading them
before the start of term]. In any case readers should bear in mind
that they are lecture notes and are not proper
tested-on-animals
course materials. I have written out those things that I fear
I might omit in the hurry of a live performance; I have written out
also - in some cases in considerable detail - those things that I
suspect I might get wrong. Material that I know I can do standing on
my head is reduced to mere bullet points. Accordingly access to these
notes is not an entirely adequate substitute for taking your own
notes: indeed there will be a small prize for the best set of notes taken!
If your college is willing to pay for supervisions I will be happy to offer them.
I supply links to two files which overlap these notes.
(1)
Lecture Notes on Logic for Philosophy Students.
Much of the importance of Logic for Philosophy comes from the lessons
it has to teach us about reasoning; in contrast we are
interested in it for what it has to tell us about language. So
the material therein concerning rules of inference, validity
etc. are likely to be of limited interest. However, the semantics is
important.
Finally, here are Richard Crouch's Notes on
Languages and Automata .