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* Literary scenario: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air<br>Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fresh_Prince_of_Bel-Air
* Literary scenario: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air<br>Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fresh_Prince_of_Bel-Air
== Towards a formal model ==
=== First steps ===
{{CreatedByStudents1213}} Involved participants: [[User:Lisa| Lisa]], [[User:Marthe| Marthe]], [[User:Elisabeth.krall| Elisabeth]], [[User:IsaB|Isabelle]].
You can think of building a formal model like being the producer of a film who has to collect everything that should be included in the film.
Here is a very simple story from which we can derive an example model.
<embedvideo service="youtube" dimensions="400">http://youtu.be/4a3mXelw7H4</embedvideo>
<quiz display="simple">
{Mark those elements that we need in a model.
|type="[]"}
+ relations
|| Yes. We use relations to express what is true between various individuals. For example the relation ''grandmother-of''.
+ individuals
||Yes. In the video, we have three individuals, ''Red Riding Hood'', ''Grandmother'', and ''Wolf''.
- nouns
|| nouns are a syntactic category and as such part of the language, not of the "world".
+ properties
||Yes. The video mentions some properties such as having a red hood.
- relatives
|| (this is a nonsense alternative)
</quiz>
<quiz display="simple">
{What is the status of the following entities in the video on Little Red Riding Hood?
|type="[]"}
|individual|property|relation
+-- ''Red Riding Hood''
-+- ''lives in the forest''
+-- ''Grandmother''
--+ ''is afternoon snack for''
-+- ''has a red hood''
-+- ''has a big mouth''
--+ ''is grandmother of''
</quiz>

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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: 17.10.2017
  • Room: IG 3.201 (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 exem (2 CP)

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

BA Empirische Sprachwissenschaft

K 6.1

  • regular attendance
  • Modulprüfung (obligatory): 90min. written exam

En 4.2

  • regular attendance
  • pass all assignment sheets
  • literary scenario

DH 6.1

to be added

Course Material

Meeting 2

Towards a formal model

First steps

The following material is an adapted form of material created by student participants of the project e-Learning Resources for Semantics (e-LRS). Involved participants: Lisa, Marthe, Elisabeth, Isabelle.

You can think of building a formal model like being the producer of a film who has to collect everything that should be included in the film.

Here is a very simple story from which we can derive an example model.

Mark those elements that we need in a model.

relations
individuals
nouns
properties
relatives


What is the status of the following entities in the video on Little Red Riding Hood?

individualpropertyrelation
Red Riding Hood
lives in the forest
Grandmother
is afternoon snack for
has a red hood
has a big mouth
is grandmother of

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