This course provides an introduction into modern formal semantic theory. We acquire a formal tool based on lambda-calculus that enables one to interpret natural language sentences compositionally. The course offers a general interpretative algorithm which allows us to capture the properties of predication, quantification, modification, relativization, presupposition, etc.
- Izvajalec: Penka Stateva
- Izvajalec: Marko Simonović
Psycholinguistics studies psychological aspects of our use of language.
It addresses two foundational questions: how much of our intrinsic
knowledge of language do we need in order to use language, and what kind
of mental/ cognitive processes enter into language comprehension,
production and acquisition. In this course we will study these three
domains of psycholinguistic research with special attention on how
natural language sentences are comprehended in real-time.
- Izvajalec: Arthur Stepanov
The
purpose of this course is to present the basic mathematical concepts which are
routinely used in formal linguistics. These tools are used within subareas of
linguistics including syntax, semantics, phonology, pragmatics and also
experimental linguistics.
- Izvajalec: Penka Stateva
- Izvajalec: Arthur Stepanov
This course discusses language use in context and defines the main types
of pragmatic phenomena like implicatures, presuppositions, implicated
presuppositions and deixes. It introduces students into the classical
Gricean theory of language use, goes through the neo-Gricean
developments of formal pragmatics and Relevance theory, and informs them
of State-of-the-Art views on the relation between Pragmatics and
Grammar.
- Izvajalec: Penka Stateva
Syntax is the
study of sentence structure and the abstract principles of organization
of syntactic knowledge in the mind of a speaker. In this course, you
gain basic knowledge of contemporary syntactic theory within the
generative framework, acquire the formal tools to do syntactic analysis
of natural languages (i.e. represent syntactic structures of sentences),
and learn how to work with native speakers’ intuitions and judgments as
a source for the development of syntactic hypotheses. This course also
trains your general analytical skills and formal argumentation.
- Izvajalec: Arthur Stepanov