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Instructors: Prof. Dr. phil. Stefan Evert
Event type:
proseminar
Org-unit: Dept. 02 - Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies
Displayed in timetable as:
Linguistic Theory
Subject:
Crediting for:
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Literature:
- Saeed, John I. (2008). Semantics. Wiley-Blackwell, 3rd edition.
- Cruse, D. Alan (1986). Lexical Semantics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- Geeraerts, Dirk (2010). Theories of Lexical Semantics. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- Taylor, John R. (1995). Linguistic Categorization: Prototypes in Linguistic Theory. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2nd edition.
- Stubbs, Michael (2001). Words and Phrases: Corpus Studies of Lexical Semantics. Blackwell, Oxford.
- Fellbaum, Christiane (ed.) (1998). WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Preconditions:
- Students wanting to attend this proseminar must have successfully completed the foundational course Introduction to linguistics and/or Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft. No previous knowledge of corpus linguistics or computational text analysis is required.
Official Course Description:
- Semantics is the study of meaning and its representation in natural language. It is concerned with the meaning of individual words in different contexts (lexical semantics), how word meanings combine into the “literal” meaning of an utterance (compositional semantics), and how such literal meanings are used by speakers to achieve their intentions (pragmatics).
- In this course, we will take a look at the major theoretical approaches in lexical semantics, compositional semantics and pragmatics. We will also discuss the phenomena and puzzles that a complete theory of semantics has to account for.
- Following the tradition of British corpus linguistics, a strong focus of the course lies on lexical semantics, usage-based approaches, connotation, and the context-dependence of meaning.
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