Teaching

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We collect and provide links to courses and course material on LRS.

Formal Semantics: An Empirically-grounded Approach (ms)

Go to the general site of the textbook or follow the links below:

Glossary of basic terms

  • The basic glossary contains key terms of semantics as they occur in the semantics chapters of introductions to linguistics or in basic introductions to semantics. Our glossary is still under construction.

Course types

The following types of semantics courses are offered by the IEAS/Linguistics department of Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M.

(Constraint-based) Semantics 1

Course description

Semantics is the study of the (literal) meaning of words and sentences. The meaning of a sentence is usually predictable from the words in the sentence and its syntactic structure. Yet, this relationship between form and meaning is not a simple one-to-one mapping. Instead, it is rich in ambiguities, pleonastic marking and elements without any identifiable meaning contribution. We will work on an account that is founded on classical tools of semantic research but still directly addresses these empirical challenges. After the class, the participants will be able to identify - and partly analyze - interesting semantic phenomena in naturally occurring texts. They will have acquired a basic working knowledge in formal logic, which they will be able to apply in the description of meaning.

Modules

  • Possible modules: L2+5, L3 FW 2A.1, FW 2B.1 / MSc WiPäd FW 2A.1 / BA ES 3.4.1 / BA EmpSprachw K6.1, En 4.1, DH 5.2
  • Remark: In diesem Kurs kann keine Modulprüfung für BA English Studies 3.4 und BA Empirische Sprachwissenschaft En 4 abgelegt werden.

Material

Find a set of typical material, including videos at the following page: Material for "(Constraint-based) Semantics 1"

The videos can also be accessed here: https://www.english-linguistics.de/videos-semantics-1/

Introduction to Constraint-based Grammar (LING-ARC-CON)

Exercises on the semantic representation language:

(Constraint-based) Semantics 2

This course comes in two variants: First, a direct continuation of the (Constraint-based) Semantics 1 course; second, a course that addresses some advanced topic in semantics but just presupposes general familiarity with semantics/predicate logic, but not LRS specifically.

A course description of the first variant could be:
This course presupposes a background in formal semantics compatible with the material discussed in Semantics 1 and similar courses. The first-order based logical framework of the introductory course to semantics will be developed into a higher order logic, which enables us to formulate a theory of quantification and sentence embedding in Lexical Resource Semantics (LRS). In this class we will focus on the possibilities that the LRS architecture offers for generalizing classical generalized quantifier theory to so-called polyadic quantifiers. These are notoriously difficult to handle for more traditional views on semantic composition in natural languages, but we will see that the constraint-based view of semantics can integrate them naturally.

Courses

Upcoming courses

Present courses

Past courses

  • Summer term 2024, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
  • Winter term 2023/24, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
  • Summer term 2023, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
  • Winter term 2021/22, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
    • Sascha Bargmann: Seminar Semantics 1
    • Manfred Sailer: Seminar Digital Data in English Linguistics: Studying the expression of negation through corpus data
    • Manfred Sailer: Seminar Pragmatics
    • Lecture Constraint-based Analysis
  • Summer term 2021, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
  • Summer term 2020, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
    • Gert Webelhuth: Seminar Semantics 1 - This course is taught online!
    • Frank Richter: Seminar Constraint-based Semantics 2 - This course is taught online!
  • Winter term 2015/16, University Frankfurt/Main.
    • Frank Richter: Seminar Semantics 1
  • Winter term 2013/14: University Düsseldorf
    Frank Richter: Constraint-based Semantics
  • Winter term 2013/14: Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
    Manfred Sailer: Semantics 2
  • Summer 2013: Summer School in Language, Logic and Information 2013, Düsseldorf
    Bob Levine and Manfred Sailer: Lexical Resource Semantics: Where empirical grounding meets computational tractability in the syntax/semantics interface. One-week introductory course in Language and Computation
  • Summer term 2013: Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
    Manfred Sailer: Introduction to Semantics
       Link to the assignment sheet on logic (with example solution)
  • Winter term 2012/13: Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. Manfred Sailer:
  • Winter term 2012/13: Universität Tübingen
    Frank Richter: Constraint-based Semantics
  • Summer term 2012: Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
    Manfred Sailer: Introduction to Semantics
  • Winter term 2011/12: University Göttingen
    Manfred Sailer: An empirically grounded approach to the syntax-semantics interface.
  • Summer 2011: Linguistic Institute 2011: University of Colorado at Boulder
    Gerald Penn and Frank Richter: Scope and Negation: Typological Diversity Meets Computational Semantics. 4-week course.
    Content: Negation, negative concord and licensing of negative polarity items were discussed under a typological perspective and described in LRS as a framework covering linguistic theory and computational implementation.
  • Winter term 2004/2005: Universität Tübingen
    Frank Richter: Underspecified Semantics: An HPSG Perspective.
  • Summer 2003: ESSLLI 2003 (Vienna)
    Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer: Constraint-based Combinatorial Semantics (Introductory course).
    Content: A number of constraint-based systems of combinatorial semantics were discussed, the essemtials of LRS were introduced and compared to the other systems.
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