OJ519 Comparative Semantics

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 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
Contact Person: Lucie Čelková
Timetable
Thu 15:00–16:35 A42 stara
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of logic.
Course Enrolment Limitations
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Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to understand how different natural languages embody some universal cognitive categories. Students will be able to interpret how are general logical operations and cognitive distinctions made into flesh through the material of natural language.
Syllabus
  • Topics: count and mass nouns, interpretation of noun phrases, generalized quantifiers, semantic parameter, kinds and their interpretation, formal semantics of number, indefinite noun phrases and their interpretation, bare noun phrases, semantics of case.
  • Languages: Slavic languages, Romance languages, Chinese, Germanic languages.
Literature
  • Sauerland, U. (2003). A new semantics for number. In Young, R. and Zhou, Y., editors, Proceedings of SALT 13. CLC Publications, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
  • Dayal, V. (2004). Number marking and (in)definiteness in kind terms. Linguistics and Philosophy, 27:393-450.
  • Reference Chierchia, G. (1998). Reference to kinds across langauges. Natural Language Semantics, 6:339-405.
  • Partee, B. H. and Rooth, M. (1983). Generalized conjunction and type ambiquity. In Rainer Ba"urle, C. S. and von Stechow, A., editors, Meaning, use and the interpretation of language. Walter de Gruyter & Co.
  • Longobardi, G. (1994). Reference and proper names: A theory of n-movement in syntax and logical form. Linguistic Inquiry, 25:609-655.
  • CHIERCHIA, Gennaro and Sally MCCONNELL-GINET. Meaning and grammar : an introduction to semantics. 2nd ed. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000, xv, 573. ISBN 026253164X. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Active participation on lectures.
Language of instruction
Czech
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