Linguistics II 3501-KOG-L2
The goal of the course is to acquaint students with semantic research and methodology. We will study formal techniques and empirical motivations of various major semantic frameworks and see how they address a number of natural language phenomena such as coordination and anaphora. Topics include:
1. Referential theory of meaning and the principle of compositionality.
2. Predicate Logic (PL) as a formal language representation for sentences in natural language (problems: quantifiers, coordinate structures, anaphora).
3. Direct compositionality and Type Logic (TL).
4. Combinatory Categorial Grammars (CCG).
5. TL+CCG for (a fragment of) natural language: quantifiers, coordinate structures.
6. Discourse anaphora and donkey sentences.
7. Dynamic Predicate Logic (DPL).
8. Discourse Representation Theory (DRT).
9. Plurals.
10. Van den Berg’s Static/Dynamic Plural Logic
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Bibliography
1. Bittner, M. (2014), Temporality: Universals and Variation, Wiley-Blackwell.
2. Carpenter, B. (1997), Type-logical Semantics, MIT Press.
3. Gamut, L.T.F. (1991), Logic, Language, and Meaning (Volume 1 & 2), University of Chicago Press.
4. Groenendijk J., Stokhof M. (1991), Dynamic Predicate Logic, Linguistics and Philosophy 14, s. 39–100.
5. Jacobson P. (2014), Compositional Semantics, Oxford University Press.
6. Kamp H., Reyle U. (1993), From Discourse to Logic, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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