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175-335/435 Advanced Semantics

Availability: Not offered in 1996.

Credit points: 16.7 3rd and 4th years.

Coordinator: Lesley Stirling.

Prerequisite: 175-212/312 Semantics.

Contact: 3 seminar hours including 1 practical hour.

Objectives:

By the end of the subject, students should:

• be familiar with a number of the major problems of analysis and description in current semantic theory;
• demonstrate an understanding of the competing approaches which have been taken to these problems in linguistics and related disciplines such as philosophy;
• have developed skills in formal semantic analysis.

Content:

Introduction to formal semantics, and consideration of a range of current topics in semantic theory.

Assessment:

Regular practical exercises and two written-up class presentations, totalling no more than 5,000 words.

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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 130)

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Date created:    Oct  9 1995
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