This unit is an introduction to important concepts in semantics, and provides the necessary basis to understand current areas of research in the discipline. Semantics is the branch of linguistics dedicated to the study of meaning in natural language (NL), and is concerned with the representation of meaning at the lexical, phrasal and sentential levels. <br/><br/>When we use language, the meaning we convey is contributed to by a range of factors. Semantics is chiefly concerned with literal meaning, and describes the relations between words and expressions to the real world. The unit mainly concerns denotational, truth-functional theories of meaning and covers topics such as the semantics... -- Course Website
Instructor: Associate Professor Marie-Eve Ritz
Prerequisites: LING2001 Grammatical Theory: the Structure of Sentences or LING2202 Grammatical Theory (Syntax)
