160116 PR Wissenschaftliches Praktikum aus Theoretischer Linguistik (2020W)

The purpose of this course is to introduce and practice the application of distributional semantics and event semantics to the analysis of lexical meaning. The former approach models lexical meaning in terms of distributional properties of lexical items. The latter approach models lexical meaning in terms of aspectual classes that describe the event structures associated with the meaning of lexical items.

At the end of this course students will be able to:
- to explain how distributional properties contribute to lexical meaning;
- to model lexical meaning in terms of vector spaces and by means of computational tools;
- to explain how lexical meaning can be modelled in terms of vector spaces;
- to demonstrate how to analyse lexical meaning in terms of event structures;
- to explain the difference between telic and atelic predicates;
- to identify, extract and describe multi-word expressions and grammatical constructions by means of computational tools (R packages and Sketch Engine);