LIN3310

Semantics: the Study of Meaning in Human Languages (6 points)

(ARTS)

Leader: Keith Allan

Offered:
Clayton First semester 2005 (Day)
Clayton First semester 2005 (Flexible)
Clayton Second semester 2005 (Flexible)

Synopsis:

Objectives: Upon completion of this subject students should be able to evaluate formal and informal methods in semantic analysis; gain a sufficient mastery of set theory, propositional and predicate calculus, and model theory to enable their use in semantic analysis and also prepare the student for an advanced course in formal semantics; be familiar with lexical, realist, conceptual, and cognitive semantics; understand how language expressions correlate with things and ideas, things that exist and things that don't; make semantic analyses of texts and formally represent the semantic relations between language expressions in them.

Assessment: Three assignments: 90% + Class test: 10%

Contact Hours: 2 hour seminar per week

Prerequisites: 12 points in Linguistics or Philosophy at second-year level.