Semantics 2, SoSe 2018
General information
Course description
In Semantics 1, we showed how to arrive at an interpretation for simple English sentences. In this follow-up course the participants will extend their analytic skills to more advanced phenomena, such as:
- scope ambiguity (Everything that glitters isn't gold.)
- the semantics of embedded clauses
- semantic concord phenomena (as in substandard nobody ain't doin' nothing)
- the semantics of modal auxiliaries (must, can, ...)
- idioms and collocations
Entrance test
In order to participate in the course you need to send your solutions to the following test to sailer@em.uni-frankfurt.de no later than March 19, 2018. (note: extended deadline from a previous announcement!)
You can find some help on the page with the mock exam for the Semantics 1 class of the summer term 2015: mock exam SoSe 2015
If you have successfully passed the written exam of a Semantics 1 course by Frank Richter or Manfred Sailer, you need not do the entrance test.
Time and place
- Tuesday 08:15-9.45
- Starting: 10.4.2018
- Room: IG 0.251 (IG-Farben-Haus)
Olat course
https://olat-ce.server.uni-frankfurt.de/olat/auth/RepositoryEntry/5912854559
Ask the lecturer for the password.
Modules
- Lehramt Englisch (L2/5, L3): FW3
- BA English Studies: 3.4(2)
- BA Empirische Sprachwissenschaft: En 4.2
- MA Linguistics: LING-CON-CORE B
Contact
Manfred Sailer
e-mail: sailer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
office: IG 3.214
office hour: Tuesday, 10-11am
www: http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~sailer/index.htm
Course requirements
to be added