Fall 2020  |  LING 5205 Section 001: Semantics (15839)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
Online Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Exclude fr or soph 5000 level courses
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Closed (35 of 35 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Analysis of sentence meaning. Semantic properties. Relations such as analyticity, entailment, quantification, and genericity. Philosophical background, formal techniques of semantic analysis, how sentence meaning depends on word meaning, syntax, and context. The role of semantics in grammatical theory. prereq: [4201 or 5201] or instr consent
Class Notes:
This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?acad_group=TCLA&subject=LING&level=5&x500=breese&term=1169
Class Description:
An introduction to the study of the meaning of linguistic expressions (words, phrases and sentences). Core semantic notions such as entailment, equivalence, truth conditions, and compositionality are introduced, in addition to basic lexical semantic concepts. Logical languages are explored: e.g., propositions, sentence connectives, negation, predicates and arguments, and quantification; as possible models for meaning in natural language, and extensions are introduced to account for a broader range of quantificational and nominal expressions. Time permitting, we turn to the verbal domain and the interpretation of tense and aspect.
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
25% Final Exam
45% Written Homework
5% Attendance
Class Format:
80% Lecture
20% Discussion
Workload:
20-30 Pages Reading Per Week
2 Exam(s)
7 Problem Set(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/15839/1209
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
15 June 2012

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