Semantics 1, SoSe 2018 (Sailer)
General information
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
Time and place
- Tuesday 08:15-9.45
- Starting: 10.4.2018
- Room: IG 0.251 (IG-Farben-Haus)
Modules
- Lehramt Englisch (L2/5, L3): FW2
- BA English Studies: 3.4(1)
- BA Empirische Sprachwissenschaft: K 6.1, En 4.1, DH 6.1
Contact
Manfred Sailer
e-mail: sailer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
office: IG 3.214
office hours: contact via e-mail!
www: http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~sailer/index.htm
Course requirements
L2 and L5
- regular attendance
- pass all assignment sheets
- Modulprüfung (optional): 90 min written exam (2 CP): 17.7.2018
L3
- regular attendance
- pass all assignment sheets
- Modulprüfung (optional):
- 20 min. oral exam
- not possible: kleine Hausabeit
BA English Studies
- regular attendance
- pass all assignment sheets
- literary scenario:
- Part 1: Extract 15 ambiguous sentences from the text such that all types of ambiguity covered in class are represented provide unambiguous paraphrases of the readings determine the type of ambiguity
- Part 2:
- Define a formal model consisting of 3 characters from your text, which contains 2 properties, 1 2-place relation
- Formulate 2 atomic formulae and compute their truth value.
- Formulate 4 complex formulae with at least 1 logical connective in each and compute their truth value.
- Formulate 1 complex formula with at least 2 logical connectives in
it and compute its truth value.
BA Empirische Sprachwissenschaft
K 6.1
- regular attendance
- Modulprüfung (obligatory): 90min. written exam
En 4.1
- regular attendance
- pass all assignment sheets
- literary scenario
DH 6.1
to be added
Erasmus 6 CP
- regular attendance
- pass the assignment sheets
- 90min. written exam: 17.7.2018
- small literary scenario:
- Part 1: Extract 4 ambiguous sentences from the text such that different types of ambiguity covered in class are represented provide unambiguous paraphrases of the readings determine the type of ambiguity
- Part 2:
- Define a formal model consisting of 3 characters from your text, which contains 2 properties, 1 2-place relation
- Formulate 2 atomic formulae and compute their truth value.
- Formulate 2 complex formulae with at least 1 logical connective in each and compute their truth value.
- Formulate 1 complex formula with at least 2 logical connectives in it and compute its truth value.
The grade will be determined by the result of the written exam.