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180050 KU Introduction to Formal Semantics (2018W)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Fr 14.09.2018 14:00 to Fr 21.09.2018 09:00
- Registration is open from Th 27.09.2018 14:00 to We 03.10.2018 09:00
- Deregistration possible until We 31.10.2018 23:59
Details
max. 30 participants
Language: German
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
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Thursday
04.10.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Thursday
11.10.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Thursday
18.10.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Thursday
25.10.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Thursday
08.11.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
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15.11.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Thursday
22.11.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Thursday
29.11.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Thursday
13.12.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Thursday
10.01.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Thursday
24.01.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Friday
25.01.
16:45 - 18:15
Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Thursday
31.01.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal 3C, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
There will be 6 graded take-home exercise sheets during the semester and a final exam in class at the end of the semester.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Prior introductory knowledge of formal logic and/or philosophy of language will be very useful, but is not an official requirement.Your grades on the exercise sheets will count ⅔ and your final exam ⅓ of your final grade.
Examination topics
The final exam will cover all material from the course script and the obligatory readings, which will be announced at the start of the semester.
Reading list
We will use my course script (available at the begin of the term) as well as:Irene Heim & Angelika Kratzer: Semantics in Generative Grammar. Blackwell, 1998
Association in the course directory
Last modified: Mo 07.09.2020 15:36
- develop an understanding for the project of investigating the meaning of natural-language expressions with formal means
- to master some indispensable tools from set theory and logic
- know the standard analysis of the meaning of some functional expressions in German (such as relative pronouns, (in)definite articles [(in)definite descriptions], quantifiers)
- investigate the meaning of complex German expressions with the tools of truth-conditional semantics