LIN2310

Semantics

(ART)

Proposed to be offered next in 2001

Keith Allan

8 points + 3 hours per week + Second semester + Clayton

Synopsis: The nature of human language, its meaningful categories and constructions, and their properties, interrelations, and motivations. Formal tools for the representation of meaning, including propositional calculus, predicate logic, and lambda calculus. Theories considered include natural semantic metalanguage, role and reference grammar, and conceptual semantics. This subject provides the basic tools and preparatory skills to progress to original research in semantics.

Assessment: 4 assignments (1500 words): 100%