OJ313 Formal semantics I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2007
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 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
Timetable
Mon 10:00–11:35 C41
Prerequisites
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.
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Course objectives
Introduction course of formal semantics. We will follow the tradition of Richard Montague.
Syllabus
  • - denotation, truth, syntax-semantics interface, quantification, logical form, generalized quantifiers, lambda abstraction.
Literature
  • Lepore, Ernest (2000): Meaning and Argument. An Introduction to Logic through Language. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • 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
  • 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
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on completion of the course: Ukončení zápočtem je možné pouze pro kredit typu C. Uděluje se na základě aktivní účasti při výuce.
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