LgBB04 Formal and experimental semantics II

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2020
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Lucia Vlášková (lecturer)
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
Timetable
Tue 16:00–17:40 N31
Prerequisites
Succesful termination of LgBA12: Formal and experimental 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
The aim of the course is to teach students actively link together formal-theoretic and experimental-data-oriented parts of natural language meaning description. The course is an advanced continuation of LgBA12.
Learning outcomes
This class continues the course LgBA12. 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
  • 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).
  • Data gathering methods (active):
  • designing a questionnaire
  • basic frequentist statistical methods: mean, median, standard error, visualisation: boxplot, whisker-plot
  • basics of modelling and consequences for formal model
Literature
    required literature
  • 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
  • PORTNER, Paul. What is meaning? : fundamentals of formal semantics. 1st pub. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2005, ix, 235. ISBN 9781405109178. info
    recommended 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
Teaching methods
lectures
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 annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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