- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
Time, event, action, perfectivity, imperfectivity. Semantics and grammatical categories of the verb in consideration to the ontology of situation 3003-CZD-OG
In the seminar an actional classification of Polish verbs will be carried on considering the verbal aspect. Different semantic groups of verbs represent different actional classes of situations, as events, e.g. zwyciężyć, actions, eg. pisać/napisać, processes, e.g. schnąć/wyschnąć, activities, eg. biegać, bzyczeć, states, np. stać, and atemporal relations, e.g. równać się. The crucial opposition is drawn between the events, denoted per default by the perfective aspect, and other situation types, denoted by the imperfective aspect.
Unfortunately, there is no universally approved verb classification, which could be used widely to describe the grammatical categories of tense and aspect, to define the parallelisms in translation, to describe meaning relations in dictionaries and thesauri, to summarize texts and extract actional information from them.
In the seminar basic actional classification will be presented: Vendler (1967), Laskowski (1997),l Polish WordNet classification (plwordnet.pw.wroc.pl) or a classification of states and events based on Petrie nets (Kosseska 1997).
Later, the semantic invariants of the perfective and the imperfective aspect and the semantic opposition in aspect pairs and beyond will be defined, as well as the functions of relative and absolute tenses. The learned classification will be then applied in tagging aspect pairs in a real corpus and dictionaries.
Type of course
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
After the seminar its participants are able to classify situation types in Polish and English, to determine the aspect value in various verbal forms and to match the aspect partners and their tyupes. They are able to apply the classification on tagging the web language ressources and devices.
Assessment criteria
Participation in the group work, list of attendences.
Practical placement
No.
Bibliography
Gramatyka współczesnego języka polskiego. Morfologia, red. R. Grzegorczykowa, R. Laskowski, H. Wróbel, 1998, Warszawa
Mazurkiewicz, A. (1986). Zdarzenia i stany: elementy temporalności. Studia gramatyczne bułgarsko-polskie, I. Temporalność. Wrocław, 203-215. (In Polish)
Koseska-Toszewa, V. , A. Mazurkiewicz (2010): Constructing catalogue of temporal situations, Cognitive Studies 10
Vendler Z. 1967: Linguistics in Philosophy
Additional information
Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:
- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
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