LING-L 325 SEMANTICS (3 CR.)
An introduction to the relationship between linguistic forms and their meanings, use and interpretation. Students will investigate the domain of linguistic semantics and acquire the "tools" to do semantic analysis and to critically evaluate those of others.
1 classes found
Fall 2024
| Component | Credits | Class | Status | Time | Day | Facility | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEC | 3 | 10763 | Open | 1:15 p.m.–2:30 p.m. | TR | BH 343 | Grano T |
Regular Academic Session / In Person
LEC 10763: Total Seats: 36 / Available: 7 / Waitlisted: 0
Lecture (LEC)
- COLL (CASE) N&M Breadth of Inq
- COLL (CASE) N&M Breadth of Inquiry credit
In this course, we will ask: how does linguistic form (¿syntax¿) encode linguistic meaning (¿semantics¿)? To answer this question, we will start by learning the basic principles of compositional truth-conditional semantics, as well as some basics of symbolic logic. Then, we will apply those ideas to develop a grammar for a fragment of English that models key semantic phenomena such as predication, conjunction, negation, quantification, scope, intersective modification, and binding. Finally, we will extend that fragment to model how we use language to talk about events and states, and how we situate events and states in time using tense and aspect.
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