Introduction to General Linguistics: Semantics

Veranstaltungsart: Proseminar
Zeit: Tuesday/Thursday 8:30-10 a.m.
Raum: SfS, room 0.02

Gerhard Jäger
office: SfS, room 1.20
secretary: 1.22 (Christine Clauder)

Course description

The "Introduction to Gerneral Linguistics" introduces to the three core areas of theoretical linguistics:

o syntax (with a bit of language acquisition),
o semantics (with a bit of pragmatics)
o phonology (with a bit of phonetics and morphology).

The material will largely revolve around the analysis of German and English, with occasional glances at other languages. The class introduces basic notions in linguistics, central aspects of the analysis of German and English, and seeks to convey an understanding of the approach of generative (cognitive) linguistics to natural language.

syllabus

date topic literature
12/14
 The notion of meaning
12/16
 Sense relations
12/21
 Ambiguity
 ZS, Chapter 2
12/23
 Ambiguity
 ZS, Chapter 3
1/11
 Extensions, Elementary Set Theory
 ZS, Chapter 4
1/13

1/18

11/20

1/25

1/27

2/1

2/3



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