Issues in Semantics
Type: For the student's choice
Department: english philology
Curriculum
| Semester | Credits | Reporting |
| 9 | 3 | Setoff |
Lectures
| Semester | Amount of hours | Lecturer | Group(s) |
| 9 | 16 | Associate Professor Khrystyna Kunets | Ina-51M, Ina52M, Ina53M |
Practical
| Semester | Amount of hours | Group | Teacher(s) |
| 9 | 16 |
Course description
Syllabus:
- What is meaning? Proposition and truth-conditions
- Introduction to formal semantics
- Types of functions
- Lexical semantics
- Sentence semantics
- Modality
- Propositional attitudes. De re, de dicto and de se
- Tense and Aspect
- Pragmatic aspects of meaning
Recommended Literature
- Cruse A. (2004). Meaning in Language: An introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Heim I. , A. Kratzer (1998). Semantics in generative grammar, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Hintikka, J. (1969). Semantics for propositional attitudes. In J.W. Davis, D.J. Hockney & W.K. Wilson (eds.), Philosophical logic, 21–45. Dordrecht: Reidel.
- von Fintel, K. and I. Heim (2011). Lecture notes on intensional semantics. ms: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Kearns K. (2011) Semantics, Palgrave.
- Leech, G. (1974). Semantics, Penguin Books.
- Ogihara, T. (2007). Tense and aspect in truthconditional semantics. Lingua 117(2). 392–418.
- Portner P.H. (2004) What is Meaning? Fundamentals of Formal Semantics, Wiley.
- Williams A. (2015). Arguments in Syntax and Semantics, Cambridge University Press.