Semantics 1, WiSe 2016/17 (Sailer)

General information

• Course hours: Tuesday, 8.15-9.45 am
• Room: New! IG 3.201
• Olat course: https://olat-ce.server.uni-frankfurt.de/olat/auth/RepositoryEntry/4208361498

Material for week 4

Homework

• Work through this wiki page.
• Read Levine et al. (in prep.), Chapter 2, Section 2 [available on olat].
• Atomic formulae: Using your model from this week's homework,

• Give 2 atomic formulae (one true, one false)
• Give 2 statements with 1 connective each. (Use different connectives!)
• Provide the step-by-step computation of the truth of your 2 atomic formulae.

• For the computation, watch the videos on the wiki page.
• Find 2 naturally occuring uses of "and" combining two sentences. Is there an extra-meaning in addition to requiring both sentences to be true?

Additional material

Check the material on this page: additional material for week 4

Material for week 3

Homework

• Work through this wiki page.
• Read Levine et al. (in prep.), Chapter 2, Section 1 [available on olat].
• Define a model and introduce the necessary name symbols and predicate symbols for our scenario with
  • three individuals
  • two relations
  • two properties
• Use your model and your symbols and write down
  • one formula that is true in your model and
  • two formulae that are false in your model.

Additional material

Check the material on this page: additional material for week 3

Material for week 2

Slides of the meeting: File:Sem1-slides02-final.pdf

Homework

• Read chapter 1 of Levine et al. (in prep.). -> available on Olat
• Find or construct one example sentence per type of ambiguity.
• Get information on our literary scenario Waiting for Godot:

On wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot

Full text: Act 1, Act 2

Full play on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wifcyo64n-w

Material for week 1

Wiki material on ambiguity: Exercise-ch1#Types_of_Ambiguity