Enrollment year
2016/2017
Academic discipline
L-LIN/01 (GLOTTOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS AND MODERN LANGUAGES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
(27/02/2017 - 01/06/2017)
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Familiarity with basic notions in linguistics.
Learning outcomes
In this course we learn how to conduct semantic analysis focusing on the interplay between lexical/semantic representations and syntactic forms. The course privileges a corpus-based approach to linguistic investigation.
Course contents
The course aims to provide students with an overview of major contemporary theories regarding the interplay between semantics and pragmatics. Both cognitive and formal approaches are discussed, focusing on the analysis of specific linguistic phenomena from a crosslinguistici perspective. At the end of the course the students are asked to conduct a semantic and pragmatic analysis using empirical data from linguistic resources (annotated corpora, treebanks, etc.).
1. Introduction
2. Pragmatic competence.
3. What is (not) said.
4. Types of inferences.
5. Semantics and Pragmatics.
6. Applications.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Lab
Slides
Meetings with teaching assistant
Reccomended or required readings
Bach, K. 1999. "The Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction: What It Is and Why It Matters",. In Turner K. (ed) The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface from Different Points of View, Oxford, Elsevier, 65-84.
Bianchi C. 2005. "Costituenti inarticolati e distinzione tra semantica e pragmatica". In Aldo Frigerio e Savina Raynaud (a cura di) Significare e Comprendere. La semantica del linguaggio verbale. Atti dell'XI Congresso Nazionale, Pubblicazioni della Società di Filosofia del Linguaggio, 145-159.
Jezek E. 2016. “Lexical information and encyclopedic knowledge”. In The Lexicon: an Introduction, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Ch. 2.
Lau, J.H., Clark, A. and S. Lappin. 2016. "Grammaticality, acceptability, and probability: a probabilistic view of linguistic knowledge". Cognitive Science.
Recanati, F. 2016. “ Contextualism and Polysemy“. To be published in a volume on Word Meaning edited by M. Textor, R. Carston and T. Pritchard, available online.
Wilson, D. and R. Carston. 2007. "A unitary approach to lexical pragmatics: relevance, inference and ad hoc concepts". In N. Burton-Roberts (ed.) Advances in Pragmatics. Palgrave, London, pp. 230-259.
Additional references to be discussed in the seminars will be provided in class and uploaded on Kiro at the beginning of the course.
Assessment methods
Final oral exam covering material from the entire course.
Final assignment (8 pages) reporting the results of an in-depth corpus-based analysis of a linguistic phenomenon previously agreed during office hours. The text in pdf format must be sent to jezek@unipv.it 7 days before the exam.
Further information
Final oral exam covering material from the entire course.
Final assignment (8 pages) reporting the results of an in-depth corpus-based analysis of a linguistic phenomenon previously agreed during office hours. The text in pdf format must be sent to jezek@unipv.it 7 days before the exam.
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