SoSe17 Semantics 2 (Sailer)

n this course, we will look at phenomena that connect semantics and pragmatics. In particular, we look at presuppositions and implicatures, such as those occurring in the following dialogue.

A: "Where will you go on vacation this summer?"

B: "You know, I need to finish my thesis."

A presupposes that B will go on vacation. B asserts that s/he has some obligation. In the dialogue, this triggers the implicature that B will not go on vacation in the summer but rather work on their thesis.

We will show how important aspects of these phenomena can be integrated into the framework of combinatorial semantics introduced in our Semantics 1 class.

BAES, L3 Englisch, EnS: "Semantics 1"

MA LING: completed participation in LING-CORE-CON (Constraint-basierte Analyse).

For BAES students: This course can only be taken to fulfill the requirements of BAES 3.4 Vertiefungsmodul 2

Registration:  

An entrance test for the course is available at:

http://www.lexical-resource-semantics.de/wiki/index.php/Semantics_2,_SoSe_2017

Send your solution to sailer@em.uni-frankfurt.de no later than April 3, 2017.

Notifications of admission will be sent out by April 10.