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This course provides an introduction to the main semantic phenomena of natural language and to a simple formal analysis, based on first-order logic, of the semantic structure of sentences. Topics will include truth-conditional theories of meaning, modality and possible worlds, predicates and arguments, truth-functional connectives, quantifiers, tense, scopal ambiguity, and the event-based analysis of action sentences.
LING101 or LING111 or ENGL123 or ENGL112 or any 15 points in PHIL
LING202, PHIL251
PHIL251
Kate Kearns
Kearns, Kate; Semantics ; 2nd ed; Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Domestic fee $595.00
International fee $2,588.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see School of Languages and Cultures .