Theory of Descriptive Linguistics – Semantics

- The semantic competence of a speaker. Semantic relations: entailment, synonymy, contradiction, presupposition, ambiguity, vagueness / indeterminacy, anomalousness, appropriateness.
- Compositionality: the meaning of a linguistics expression as a function of its parts and their relations. Denotational and representational theory of meaning. The metalanguage of semantics.
- Truth: a posteriori / a priori; necessary / contingent, analytic / synthetic. Truth-conditional denotational semantics.
- Syntax and semantics of sentential logic.
- Syntax and semantics of predicate logic.
- Syntax and semantics of quantifiers. Determining the scope of a quantifier. Interpretation of quantified expressions.
- Syntax and semantics of intensional sentences. Circumstances and context in intensional semantics. Modal logic: epistemic, deontic.
- Syntax and semantics of time.
- Event semantics and aspect.
- From propositional to intended meaning. Semantics as a theory of the logical form of sentences and pragmatics as a theory of rational use of language. Language is systematically used in a way that, in given circumstances, the interpretation of a given utterance contains more than the meaning given by grammatical rules. Psychological pragmatics.
- Speech act theory.
- Cooperative principle and the theory of implicatures.
- Relevance theory.

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Ronnie Cann, 1993, Formal Semantics: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. COBISS.SI-ID - 54161152
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Ruth Kempson, 1977, Semantic Theory, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. COBISS.SI-ID - 260951
Richard Larson G. Segal, 1995, Knowledge of Meaning, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. COBISS.SI-ID - 260951
John Lyons, 1977, Semantics I, II; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. COBISS.SI-ID - 11788
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John Searle, 1969, Speech Acts, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. COBISS.SI-ID - 10709090
Dan Sperber Deidree Wilson, 1986, Relevance: Communication and Cognition, Harvard University Press, Cambridge. COBISS.SI-ID - 58947072
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Elizabeth Coppock & Lucas Champollion (2023). Invitation to Formal Semantics. Draft of August 30, 2023. https://eecoppock.info/bootcamp/semantics-boot-camp.pdf
Priporočena literatura:
Paul H. Grice, 1989, Studies in the Way of Words, Harvard University Press, Cambridge. Ponatisi razprav: 1957, "Meaning";1968, "Utterer's Meaning and Intentions"; 1975, "Logic and Conversation". COBISS.SI-ID - 512027776
Gamut, L. T. F., 1991, Logic, Language and Meaning, University of Chicago Press, Chicago; Volume 1: Introduction to Logic; Volume 2: Intensional Logic and Logical Grammar. COBISS.SI-ID - 1759049