LING218-11S2 (C) Semester Two 2011

Formal Semantics

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 11 July 2011
End Date: Sunday, 13 November 2011
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 22 July 2011
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 7 October 2011

Description

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.

Prerequisites

LING101 or LING111 or ENGL123 or ENGL112 or any 15 points in PHIL

Restrictions

LING202, PHIL251

Equivalent Courses

Course Coordinator

Kate Kearns

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Test 1 08 Aug 2011 30%
Test 2 12 Sep 2011 30%
Test 3 12 Oct 2011 40%

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Kearns, Kate; Semantics ; 2nd ed; Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Indicative Fees

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 .

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