I029 Logical Analysis of Natural Language I

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2000
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Pavel Materna, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Pavel Materna, CSc.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
I997 State Exam || P998 Bc-Exam
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1995, Autumn 1996, Autumn 1997, Autumn 1998, Autumn 1999, Autumn 2001.
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