OJ313 Formal semantics I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2013
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Hana Strachoňová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Tomáš Hoskovec, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 10:50–12:25 C43
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.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40
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
  • Heim, Irene & Kratzer, Angelika (1998): Semantics in Generative Grammar. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
  • Lepore, Ernest (2000): Meaning and Argument. An Introduction to Logic through Language. Oxford: 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
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
Information about innovation of course.
This course has been innovated under the project "Faculty of Arts as Centre of Excellence in Education: Complex Innovation of Study Programmes and Fields at FF MU with Regard to the Requirements of the Knowledge Economy“ – Reg. No. CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0228, which is cofinanced by the European Social Fond and the national budget of the Czech Republic.

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