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160146 SE Seminar on the Theory of Grammar (2017S)

Intensional Semantics

8.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 16 - Musikwissenschaft und Sprachwissenschaft
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Details

max. 30 participants
Language: German, English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 29.03. 16:00 - 19:00 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Thursday 30.03. 09:15 - 12:15 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Monday 03.04. 16:45 - 19:45 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Tuesday 04.04. 15:15 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Wednesday 05.04. 16:00 - 19:00 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Thursday 06.04. 09:15 - 12:15 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The seminar is an introduction to the basic techniques needed to analyze intensional constructions in terms of possible world semantics. After a short characterization of the core phenomena (substitutivity in attitude reports, de re/de dicto, unspecificity), the method of extension and intension is developed and applied to account for them. In the second part we will turn to the representation of intensionality in terms of bound (world- or index-) variables vs. implicit parameters. Time permitting, the course will end with a quick look at questions of general theoretical architecture, like the relation between possible worlds and models, or the purported confinement of intensionality to clausal embedding.

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Association in the course directory

MA1-M3, MA1-APM4B

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