Semantics 1, WiSe 2014/15 (Sailer)
Material for Manfred Sailer's seminar
Semantics 1, winter term 2014/15, Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M.
General information
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Material for week 6: Meeting of November 17, 2014
Input
Watch the following video on logical determiners:
<mediaplayer>http://youtu.be/b0iLejXP9C8</mediaplayer>
Tasks
After having watched the video, work on the following tasks.
Task 1 Identify the determiners in the following sentence.
(a) Juliet talked to some stranger at the party.
(b) Every Capulet is an enemy to some Montague.
(c) Many people in Verona are not happy about the Capulet-Montague feud.
Check your solutions here:
(a) some
(b) every, some
(c) many
Task 2 Identify the formula that corresponds to the translation of the sentence.
Task 3 The sentence: Some Tybalt loved some Montague. is translated into the formula
∃ y (montague1(y) : love2(tybalt,y).
Homework task for the meeting of November 24
In the following sentences,
- identify the determiner, the restrictor, and the scope,
- provide the paraphrase,
- translate the sentences into formulae,
- indicate for each formula whether it is true or false.
Example: Laurence married Romeo to a Capulet.
- determiner: every
restrictor: Capulet
scope: Laurence married Romeo to x - paraphrase: For every x such that x is a Capulet, Laurence married Romeo to x.
- formula: ∀ x (capulet1(x) : marry-to(laurence, romeo, x))
- true or false? The formula is true in the context of our play because Juliet is a Capulet and Laurence marries Romeo to her. Thus, we find an individual for which both the restrictor and the scope are true.
Work on the following sentences:
(a) Romeo talked to a friar.
(b) Juliet killed every Capulet.