COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FORMAL SEMANTICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DIL 6066 FORMAL SEMANTICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 9

Offered By

General Linguistics

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MURAT ÖZGEN

Offered to

General Linguistics

Course Objective

This course aims to provide a detailed framework of Formal Semantics as discussed within the literature of Generative Grammar.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   recognize the basic devices of formal semantics
2   discuss the literature by means of the devices of formal semantics,
3   describe the event semantics in detail
4   analyze the Turkish and universal literature of the event semantics
5   write a publishable fully-fledged paper with specific focus on the relevant phenomena.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Truth-Conditional Semantics and Fregean Program Sets and Notations
2 Application of Fregean Program Semantic Types and Representation Domains
3 Semantics and Syntax Type-Driven Interpretation and Argument Structure
4 Non-Verbal Predication, Quantification, Specific Descriptions
5 Relative Clauses, Variables and Variable Binding Relative Clauses as Predications, Multiple Variables, Syntactic Restrictions
6 Quantification and Nature of Quantification Generalized Quantifiers, DP, Quantifier Determiner
7 Quantification and Grammar Quantifiers in Object Position, Scopal Ambiguity, Reverse Scope, Antecedent Contained Deletion, Pronominal Binding Quantifiers
8 Midterm Presentations
9 Syntactic and Semantic Restrictions on Quantifier Movement I VP-Quantification
10 Syntactic and Semantic Restrictions on Quantifier Movement II DP/PP/AP-Quantification
11 Dependent/Referential Pronominals and Ellipsis R-expressions as Free Variables, Coreference/Binding, Ellipsis
12 Synactic and Semantic Binding Coindexation, Binding Principle, Weak Crossover
13 E-Type Anaphors
14 Intensional Semantics: an Introduction

Recomended or Required Reading

de Swart, Henriette. 1998. Introduction to Natural Language Semantics. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Bach, Emmon. 1989. Informal Lectures on Formal Semantics. SUNY Press.
Farkas, Donka. 1981. Quantifier scope and syntactic islands. In Hendrick, R. C. Masek, M. Miller. (eds.), Papers from the Seventeenth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. Chicago: University of Chicago.
Grice, H. Paul. 1968. Logic and conversation. In Grice, H.P. Studies in the Way of Words. Harvard University Press: Cambridge.
Karttunnen, Lauri. 1971. Presuppositions of compound sentences. Linguistic Inquiry 4.2:169-193.
Karttunnen, Lauri. 1976. Discourse referents. In McCawley, J. (ed.) Syntax and Semantics 7. Academic Press: New York.
Heim, Irene. 1982. Ch. 1 of The semantics of definite and indefinite NPs. Ph.D. thesis, UMass Amherst.
Heim, I., & Kratzer, A. (1998). Semantics in generative grammar (Vol. 13). Oxford: Blackwell.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. 1- Lecture
2. 2- Presentation
3. 3- Question and answer
4. 4- Discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Learning outcomes 1,2,3,4,5,will be evaluated via via homework assignment/Project

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1- 80% class attendance is obligatory.
2. 2- Absence from classes will not be considered as an excuse for late submission of the homework assignments/projects.
3. 3- Cheating and plagiarism attempts in assignments and exams will be evaluated with a 0 (zero) grade.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 30 30
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing assignments 1 30 30
Preparing presentations 1 30 30
Final 1 6 6
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 213

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.1555
LO.2555
LO.3555
LO.4555
LO.5555

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