OJ334 Formal semantics II

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 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
Contact Person: Lucie Čelková
Timetable
Tue 10:00–11:35 C41
Prerequisites
Succesful termination of OJ313: Formal semantics I.
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
Course objectives
This class continues the course OJ313. The prerequisity is understanding of the Montague grammar. Topics of this course include: lexical semantics in natural language (making inferences based on the lexical meaning of words), time and aspect (especially important for Slavic languages), possible worlds semantics and intensional semantics (control verbs, propositional attitudes).
Syllabus
  • Topics of this course include: lexical semantics in natural language (making inferences based on the lexical meaning of words), time and aspect (especially important for Slavic languages), possible worlds semantics and intensional semantics (control verbs, propositional attitudes).
Literature
  • 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
  • CANN, Ronnie. Formal semantics :an introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, xvii, 344. ISBN 0-521-37610-6. info
Assessment methods
Lectures, class discussion. Student must write a paper on assigned topic to complete the course.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017.
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