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Intermediate semantics

Aims

In this course you will acquire a basic understanding of the formal techniques necessary for the construction of a theory of meaning. You will achieve a basic fluency in the formal languages and you will appreciate the necessity for such rigorous techniques in the study of meaning.

By the end of this module, students will typically:

  • Display a basic understanding of the notion of quantification and its manifestations in natural language
  • Display a basic understanding of set theory and its use in model-theoretic semantics
  • Correctly use first order predicate logic to represent natural language sentences
  • Further appreciate the importance of entailment and the distinction between entailment, presupposition, and implicature

About this module

  • Module name
    Intermediate semantics
  • Course code
    L11I (LAN00011I)
  • Teacher
     George Tsoulas
  • Term(s) taught
    Spring-Summer
  • Credits
    20