Universität Wien

160127 SE Seminar aus Semantik: Fragen (2010S)

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Die Lehrveranstaltung findet geblockt in der ersten Märzhälfte voraussichtlich jeweils 16 - 18 Uhr im Bibliotheksraum statt. Genauere Zeiten erfahren Sie auf der Homepage des Instituts unter: http://www.linguistics.at/

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Sprache: Englisch

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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

The purpose of the class is to present in a systematic way some of the most influential lines of investigations pertaining to the semantics of questions. We will start by presenting two related types of theories, namely theories based on "sets of answers" Hamblin 1973, Karttunen, 1977), on the one hand, and theories based on "partition semantics", on the other hand (Gronendijk & Stockhof 1982, 1984), and discuss their strengths and weaknesses. This will lead us to an extensive discussion of embedded interrogatives (including topics such as weak and strong exhaustivity in relation to NPI licensing, the distinction between de dicto and de re readings, extensional vs. intensional question embedding predicates, quantificational variability). We will provide a compositional account of the meaning of wh-questions, which will allow us to address more specific topics (e.g. degree questions, functional and pair-list readings of wh-questions, alternative questions, weak-island phenomena).

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

The goal of the class is to enable students to understand the most recent literature and to start their own investigations in these areas.

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur


Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Code alter Studienplan: 215

Letzte Änderung: Fr 31.08.2018 08:52