Teaching

We collect and provide links to courses and course material on LRS.

Forthcoming textbook: Formal Semantics: An Empirically-grounded Approach

Go to the general site of the textbook or follow the links below:

• What the textbook is about
• Material ordered by chapter

Courses

Upcoming courses

• Winter term 2012/13: University Frankfurt/Main. Manfred Sailer:
  • Proseminar: Introduction to Semantics
  • Hauptseminar: ''New Media in Teaching Semantics''
  • Oberseminar: Syntax and Semantics
• Winter term 2012/13: Universität Tübingen
  Frank Richter: Constraint-based Semantics
• Summer 2013: Bob Levine and Manfred Sailer: Lexical Resource Semantics: Where empirical grounding meets computational tractability in the syntax/semantics interface. One-week introductory course in Language and Computation at the Summer School in Language, Logic and Information 2013, Düsseldorf.

Previous courses

• Summer term 2012: University Frankfurt/Main
  Manfred Sailer: Introduction to Semantics

• Winter term 2011/12: University Göttingen
  Manfred Sailer: An empirically grounded approach to the syntax-semantics interface.

• Summer 2011: Linguistic Institute 2011: University of Colorado at Boulder
  Gerald Penn and Frank Richter: Scope and Negation: Typological Diversity Meets Computational Semantics. 4-week course.
  Content: Negation, negative concord and licensing of negative polarity items were discussed under a typological perspective and described in LRS as a framework covering linguistic theory and computational implementation.

• Winter term 2004/2005: Universität Tübingen
  Frank Richter: Underspecified Semantics: An HPSG Perspective.

• Summer 2003: ESSLLI 2003 (Vienna)
  Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer: Constraint-based Combinatorial Semantics (Introductory course).
  Content: A number of constraint-based systems of combinatorial semantics were discussed, the essemtials of LRS were introduced and compared to the other systems.