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160116 PR Scientific Practical Training in Theoretical Linguistics (2020W)

Continuous assessment of course work

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 40 participants
Language: German, English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 05.10. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Monday 19.10. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Monday 16.11. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Monday 30.11. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Monday 14.12. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Monday 11.01. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Monday 25.01. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The purpose of this course is to introduce and practice the application of distributional semantics and event semantics to the analysis of lexical meaning. The former approach models lexical meaning in terms of distributional properties of lexical items. The latter approach models lexical meaning in terms of aspectual classes that describe the event structures associated with the meaning of lexical items.

At the end of this course students will be able to:
- to explain how distributional properties contribute to lexical meaning;
- to model lexical meaning in terms of vector spaces and by means of computational tools;
- to explain how lexical meaning can be modelled in terms of vector spaces;
- to demonstrate how to analyse lexical meaning in terms of event structures;
- to explain the difference between telic and atelic predicates;
- to identify, extract and describe multi-word expressions and grammatical constructions by means of computational tools (R packages and Sketch Engine);

Assessment and permitted materials

Discussions, data analysis, assignments and exercises.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Students are required to attend classes regularly and to maintain an 85% attendance rate.
Basic computer skills.
No previous knowledge of distributional and event semantics is required.

Examination topics

Reading list

Will be provided in the course.

Association in the course directory

BA-APM10c

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