Glossary of Linguistic Terms (very useful!)
Important: Please note that all class notes are now also available at Morisette library (reserve desk).
The additional readings on conversational implicature and speech acts on reserve are NOT compulsory.
Formal semantics: predicate logic, quantifiers
March 25-Austin, Searle, implicature
March 21-quiz, speech act theory
March18 -conversational implicature (pdf. format)
March 14-inference and information structure (pdf.format)
Notes on Pragmatics (pdf.format) updated
Notes on Theta-roles (pdf. format)
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Semantics-I Winter 2002 WEEKLY OUTLINE Instructor: Olga Arnaudova |
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TOPIC
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READING (Saad) |
Notes
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Monday |
Overview Course requirements. Semantics and linguistics.Semantics and philosophy of language. Semantics and semiotics.Goals of the course.
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Ch. 1: Semantics in Linguistics p.1-3
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Jan.7 |
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Thursday |
Basic concepts What is meaning? Word meaning and sentence meaning. Denotation/reference.Literal and non-literal meaning. |
p. 3-19 |
Jan.10 |
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Monday |
Meaning Reference as a theory of meaning |
Ch. 2. Meaning, Thought and Reality p. 23-32 |
Jan. 14 |
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Thursday |
Meaning (cont) Mental representation. Concepts and meaning. Prototypes. |
p. 32-40 |
Jan. 177 |
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Monday |
Meaning (cont) Word meaning. Words, concepts and the language of thought. Words and lexical items. |
p. 40-47 Ch. 3 Word meaning p.53-59 |
Jan. 21 |
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Jan. 24 Thursday |
Relations and categories Lexical relations (homonymy, polysemy, synonymy, opposites, hyponymy, meronymy) |
p. 63-71 |
Session with librarian has moved to Feb. 4 Quiz |
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Monday |
Relations
and categories
Grammatical relations. Derivational relations.
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p. 55; p. 71-73 |
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Thursday |
Truth conditions, entailment, presupposition Truth and logic. |
Ch. 4 Sentence Relations and Truth p. 79-90
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Jan. 31 |
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Monday |
Truth conditions, entailment, presupposition Entailment. Exercises. |
p. 90-93 |
Session with librarian Simard 430
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Thursday |
Truth conditions, entailment, presupposition Presupposition. Semantic presupposition. Pragmatic presupposition. |
p.93-102 |
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Monday |
Situations Basic situation types
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Ch. 5 Sentence Semantics 1: Situations p.106
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Feb. 11 |
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Thursday |
Situations Tense. Aspect. Discussion of mid-term examination |
p. 107-125 |
Quiz |
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Feb. 25 Monday |
Mid-term test |
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Thursday |
Situations
Mood. Evidentiality |
p. 125-133 | |
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March 4 Monday |
Thematic relations Theta-roles and participants. |
Ch. 6: Sentence Semantics 2: Participants p. 139-147 |
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Thursday |
Thematic relations Verbs and theta-roles. Voice. |
p. 145-165 |
Independent assignment topic handed in. |
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Monday |
Context, deixis, implicature Types of deixis. Pragmatics (overview) |
Ch. 7: Context and Inference p. 172-180 |
March 11 |
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Thursday |
Context, deixis, implicature Context and information structure |
p. 180-190 |
March 14 |
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Monday |
Context, deixis, implicature Conversational implicature. Exercises. |
p. 191-197 Additional readings on conversational implicature and speech acts on reserve (NOT compulsory!). |
March 18 |
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Thursday |
Speech acts Speech Act Theory |
Ch. 8: Functions of Language: Speech as Action p. 203-212 |
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Monday |
Speech acts Direct and indirect speech acts |
p. 212-223 |
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Thursday |
Formal semantics Predicate logic. Logic symbols, quantifiers.Denotation assignment function. |
Ch. 10: Formal Semantics Section 10.3; 10.7 |
March 28 |
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Thursday |
Formal semantics Sets |
Cont. | April 4 |
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April 8 Monday |
Formal semantics Cont. |
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April 11 Thursday |
Discussions/presentations
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Apr. 15
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Review |
Independent assignment is due |
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| April, 19 | Final examination | ||