OJ559 Theories of plurality

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2020
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 L21
Prerequisites
Knowledge of formal syntax and semantics, passive knowledge of English.
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 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to understand the various types of plurality in natural language: from nominal plurality (three students, three groups of students, three kinds of students, ...) to verbal plurality (various pluractional verbel morphemes in Slavic and other languages). Student will understand different ways in which natural languages gramaticalize various plural meaning by different ways (derivational morphology, classifiers, ...) . Students will be able to formalize different types of constructions connected to plurality phenomena like the distinction between distributive, collective, cumulative readings.
Syllabus
  • Topics: form and interpretation of sentences with plurality expressions, distributive, collective, cumulative meaning, quantifiers, numerals, grammatical number.
Literature
    required literature
  • Landman, Fred. 2000. Events and plurality: The Jerusalem lectures. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
    recommended literature
  • Chierchia, Gennaro. 1998. Reference to kinds across language. Natural language semantics 6:339–405.
  • Schwarzschild, Roger. 1996. Pluralities. Springer.
  • Link, Godehard. 1983. The logical analysis of plurals and mass terms: A lattice-theoretical approach. In Meaning, use and the interpretation of language, ed. Rainer B ̈urle, Christoph Schwarze, & Arnim von a Stechow, 303–323. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
Written examination consisting of 3 questions focusing on the basic notions of the discipline.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2022.
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