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Fall 2024 | LING 5205 Section 001: Semantics (18717)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Delivery Mode
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Exclude fr or soph 5000 level courses
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Appleby Hall 302
- Enrollment Status:
Open (18 of 40 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 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/18717/1249
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 15 June 2012
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2024 Linguistics Classes