FI:I029 Logical Analysis of Natural La - Course Information

I029 Logical Analysis of Natural Language I

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 2 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).

Teacher(s)

prof. PhDr. Pavel Materna, CSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Pavel Materna, CSc.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
• Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-SS)
• Information Technology (programme FI, B-IN)

Syllabus

• The problem of meaning. Syntactics, Semantics, Pragmatics. Frege: Meaning and sense. Church's formulation.
• Critique of Frege's semantics, critique of Quine.s behavioristic 'semantics'.
• Possible-worlds theories; Montague, Kripke.
• Functional theories of meaning. Functions as prescriptions, functions as mappings.
• The principle of extensionality, of compositionality.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.

• Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 1998, recent)
  
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