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Introduction to Theoretical Semantics - NPFL026
Title: Úvod do teoretické sémantiky
Guaranteed by: Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (32-UFAL)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2020
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: cancelled
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Peregrin, CSc.
Class: DS, matematická lingvistika
Classification: Informatics > Computer and Formal Linguistics
Is pre-requisite for: NPFL029
Annotation -
Last update: T_UFAL (06.05.2004)
The lecture focuses on theories of formal reconstruction of the semantics of natural language, especially those based on logic. The point of departure is the analysis of the principles and limitations of reconstructing semantics by means of the apparatus of classical (extensional) logic. This then leads to the presentation of the reconstruction by means of intensional logic, and then also by means of further, newer theories, such as the theory of structured meanings, situation semantics, Tichý's theory of constructions, discourse representation theory and dynamic logic. No prerequisites.
Literature - Czech
Last update: T_UFAL (06.05.2004)

Učební text (basic textbook) - Peregrin, J.: Úvod do teoretické sémantiky, Karolinum, Praha, 1998.

Další literatura (further references) - Cann, R.: Formal Semantics (An Introduction), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995. - Gamut, L.T.F.: Logic, Language and Meaning I-II, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1991. - Chierchia, G. a S. McConell-Ginnet: An Introduction to Semantics, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990. - Larson, R. and G. Segal: Knowledge of Meaning (An Introduction to Semantic Theory), MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass.), 1995. - van Benthem, J. and A. ter Meulen, eds.: Handbook of Logic and Language, Elsevier / MIT Press, Oxford / Cambridge (Mass.), 1997. - Materna, P., R. Pala a J. Zlatuška: Logická analýza přirozeného jazyka, Academia, Praha, 1989. - Sgall, P. a kol.: Úvod do syntaxe a sémantiky, Academia, Praha, 1986.

Syllabus -
Last update: T_UFAL (06.05.2004)

1. Introduction

2. The extensional model of meaning - The principles of extensional semantics - A model of language corresponding to the standard predicate calculus - Categorial grammar and type theory - Lambda-abstraction and lambda-categorial grammar

3. The intensional model of meaning - The limits of extensional semantics, modal logic and the concept of possible world - Extension vs. intension - Montague's intensional logic - Tichý's intensional logic and two-sorted type theory

4. "Hyperintensional" models of meaning - Belief sentences and intensional isomorphism - The theory of structured meanings - Tichý's constructions - Situation semantics

5. Dynamic models of meaning - Problems of anaphoric reference - Discourse representation theory (DRT) - Meaning as a state change - Dynamic logic

6. Selected special problems of semantics

 
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