OJ313 Formal semantics I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Tomáš Hoskovec, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 13:20–14:55 A40
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of elementary logic.
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
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Course objectives
At the end of the course students understand most important notions of formal semantics; they grasp principles of formal modeling of natural language meaning; they can work with the formal methods and apply them to analysis of words, sentences and basic compositional operations assembling the meanings of units in natural language. They understand inner working of natural language and distinctions between semantics and pragmatics of natural language expressions.
Syllabus
  • Keywords: denotation, truth, syntax-semantics interface, quantification, logical form, generalized quantifiers, lambda abstraction.
Literature
  • Lepore, Ernest (2000): Meaning and Argument. An Introduction to Logic through Language. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Heim, Irene & Kratzer, Angelika (1998): Semantics in Generative Grammar. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
  • CHIERCHIA, Gennaro and Sally MCCONNELL-GINET. Meaning and grammar : an introduction to semantics. 2nd ed. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000, xv, 573 s. ISBN 0-262-53164-X. info
  • PEREGRIN, Jaroslav. Úvod do teoretické sémantiky : principy formálního modelování významu. 1. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 1998, 206 s. ISBN 8071846856. info
  • PARTEE, Barbara H., Robert E. WALL and Alice ter MEULEN. Mathematical methods in linquistics. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993, xxii, 664. ISBN 90-277-2245-5. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
Lectures, class discussion. Student must successfully write test to complete this course.
Language of instruction
Czech
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Study Materials
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