FF:CJD19 Intoduction into Semantics - Course Information
CJD19 Intoduction into Semantics - PhD lectures
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2009
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Petr Karlík, CSc. - Prerequisites
- CJD11 Syntax I
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.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Czech Language (programme FF, D-FI) (2)
- Course objectives
- Introduction course of formal semantics. We will follow the tradition of Richard Montague.
- 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
- 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 annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2009, recent)
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