FF:LgDEA10 Exp. syntax and semantics II. - Course Information
LgDEA10 Experimental syntax and semantics II.
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2022
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 15 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D. (lecturer), Mgr. Jakub Dotlačil, Ph.D. (deputy)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts - Prerequisites
- Passive knowledge of English, intro to first-order predicate 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).
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- Course objectives
- Aim of the course is to teach students how to understand current syntactic and semantic theories, understand how predictions of these theories can be tested via experiments.
- Learning outcomes
- Students will be able to:
- be oriented in different frameworks which are on the market in current formal linguistics (syntactic and semantic);
- make deductions based on acquired knowledge which allow them to ponder theoretical problems connected with application of formal methods to material of natural language;
- design own advanced experiments on natural language material (comparatives: theoretical approaches and experimental methods, modified numerals: theoretical approaches and experimental methods);
- work with advanced statistical methods (linear models, regression, cumulative models, intro to Bayesian statistics)
- to be able to find dialectal variation in data (via searching for correlations between linear regression, etc.). - Syllabus
- phrase structure, theta roles, anaphors, transformations, empty categories, minimalist program
- syntax-semantics interface
- logical types, lambda abstraction, modeling of different natural language categories (sets, sets of sets, ...)
- advanced topics from syntax-semantics interface: comparatives, modified numerals, theoretical approaches and experimental methods;
- advanced statistical methods (frequentist statistics, Bayesian statistics)
- correlation between regressions
- incremental processing of sentence meaning
- Literature
- required literature
- KRUSCHKE, John K. Doing Bayesian data analysis : a tutorial with R and BUGS. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011, xvii, 653. ISBN 9780123814852. info
- BAAYEN, Rolf Harald. Analyzing linguistic data : a practical introduction to statistics using R. 1st print. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, xiii, 353. ISBN 9780521882590. info
- HEIM, Irene and Angelika KRATZER. Semantics in generative grammar. 1st pub. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1998, viii, 324. ISBN 9780631197126. info
- recommended literature
- Brasoveanu, Adrian, and Jakub Dotlačil. "Sentence-internal" same" and its quantificational licensors: A new window into the processing of inverse scope." Semantics and Pragmatics 8 (2015): 1-1.
- Haegeman, Liliane (1997): The New Comparative Syntax. London: Longman.
- Culicover, Peter W. - Jackendoff, R. Simpler syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-927108-9.
- Bochnak, M. Ryan, and Lisa Matthewson, eds. Methodologies in Semantic Fieldwork. Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Sportiche, Koopman & Stabler (2003). An introduction to syntactic analysis and theory. http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/stabler/isat.pdf.
- Johnson, Kyle. Introduction to Transformational Grammar. Lecture notes. Ms. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
- HAEGEMAN, Liliane M. V. and Jacqueline GUÉRON. English grammar :a generative perspective. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, xiii, 672. ISBN 0-631-18839-8. info
- FROMKIN, Victoria and Robert RODMAN. An introduction to language [Fromkin, 1998]. 6th ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1998, xvii, 566. ISBN 0-03-018682-X. info
- CHOMSKY, Noam. The minimalist program. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995, 420 s. ISBN 0-262-53128-3. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures.
- Assessment methods
- Lectures, class discussion. The course is completed by successful writing of a test.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught: in blocks.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2022, recent)
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