FF:CJD19 Intoduction into Semantics

CJD19 Intoduction into Semantics - PhD lectures

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2010

Extent and Intensity

0/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D. (lecturer)

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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

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.