OJ591 Topics in linguistics: morphology, syntax & semantics of numbers and numerals

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Marcin Wągiel, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 14:00–15:40 L41
Prerequisites
Introductionary course in syntax and intro to logic -- not neccesary but recommended.
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 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The goal of the seminar is to teach students to understand the part of natural language which relates to the computation of number and numerals as well as their interaction. In order to get there, students will acquire knowledge of rules behind these phenomena on all levels of linguistic description: from morphological, through syntactic to semantic and pragmatic aspects. The students will acquire knowledge of current formal theories of number, numerals, their interaction and compositional assembly not only at the syntactic but also at the semantic level. The learned information can be used by the students, e.g., when writing their BA/MA thesis. A part of the lecture series will be dedicated to the systematic preparation of students to design their own experiment which can be used as a basis for a thesis. The seminar has partially a research goal, as well as a pedagogical one.
Syllabus
  • Morphosyntax of numerals
  • Semantics of number and numerals
  • Types of plurality interpretations
  • Case study: experiments concerning group nouns
  • Case study: number and distributivity in sign languages
  • Case study: ...
  • Design of student's experiment concerning number and numerals
Literature
  • Winter, Y. (2001). Flexibility principles in Boolean semantics: The interpretation of coordination, plurality, and scope in natural language. Boston MA: MIT press.
  • R.H. Baayen: Analyzing Linguistic Data: A Practical Introduction to Statistics using R. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • LANDMAN, Fred. Events and plurality : the Jerusalem lectures. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, xvii, 381. ISBN 0792365682. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
final group project
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020.
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