Semantics 2, WiSe 2016/17

Preparational material

Course description

In Semantics 1, we showed how to arrive at an interpretation for simple English sentences. In this follow-up course the participants will extend their analytic skills to more advanced phenomena, such as:

• scope ambiguity ("Everything that glitters isn't gold.")
• the semantics of embedded clauses
• semantic concord phenomena (as in substandard "nobody ain't doin' nothing")
• the semantics of modal auxiliaries ("must", "can", ...)
• idioms and collocations

Entrance test

In order to participate in the course you need to send your solutions to the following test to sailer@em.uni-frankfurt.de no later than October 16, 2016. (note: extended deadline from a previous announcement!)

WiSe1617-Semantics2-EntranceTest.pdf

You can find some help on the page with the mock exam for the Semantics 1 class of the summer term 2015: mock exam SoSe 2015

Unfortunately notifications cannot be sent out by October 12 but only after the first meeting of the course. So, please come to the course meeting in any case

If you have successfully passed the written exam of a Semantics 1 course by Frank Richter or Manfred Sailer in one of the last three terms, you need not do the entrance test.

Material for week 15

Mock exam (to be uploaded)