UZAJ2068 Semantics: Sentence Semantics

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2005
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Naděžda Kudrnáčová, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Tomáš Kačer, Ph.D.
Timetable
Mon 16:40–18:15 G23
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Semantics (as the study of meaning) is central to the study of communication. This seminar offers an introduction to some of the basic concepts of semantics and to the basic problems connected with the analysis of the semantic structure of the sentence. In view of the interrelation between semantics and syntax, attention is naturally paid also to the syntactic structure of the sentence. This is an investigative seminar, designed for advanced students. It is aimed at encouraging an active approach on the part of students toward the subject matter.
Syllabus
  • - semantics versus pragmatics - the distinction between the level of cognitive content and the level of linguistic meaning - semantico-syntactic interface: the relations between grammatical sentence patterns and semantic sentence patterns - the hierarchical structure of the semantics of the sentence - semantic roles as generalizations of lexical meanings on a higher level of abstraction - anthropocentrism of syntax - case theory and the problem of language universals - the "static" semantic structure of the sentence versus the "dynamic" semantic structure of the sentence
Literature
  • Saeed, John I.: Semantics (Blackwell 1997)
  • LYONS, John. Linguistic semantics : an introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, xvi, 376. ISBN 0521438772. info
  • DANEŠ, František. Věta a text : studie ze syntaxe spisovné češtiny. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1985, 234 s. URL info
  • LEECH, Geoffrey Neil. Semantics :the study of meaning. 2nd ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1981, xii, 383 s. ISBN 0-14-021694-4. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
A seminar. Assessment: a written test at the end of the course.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught each semester.
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