Description and contextualization of the subject

El objetivo principal del curso es mostrar la investigación actual en torno a temas centrales en la investigación semántica. Con ello, se tratará de conseguir que los alumnos puedan (i) realizar argumentaciones en el campo de la Semántica mediante la presentación y el análisis de datos, aplicando el aparato formal y los conocimientos adquiridos en el curso de Principios de Semántica y Pragmática del primer cuatrimestre; (ii) realizar valoraciones de las diferentes propuestas teóricas en la semántica y la pragmática; (iii) discutir sobre los límites de la semántica y su necesaria interrelación con otros componentes gramaticales (sintáctico, pragmático...).

Temary

Semantic composition as Functional Aplication

Modification

The semantics of adjectives

Gradability and vagueness

Implicatures, Scalar Implicatures.

Presupposition

Comparatives and Superlatives

Scalar Implicature



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Este sistema de evaluación está diseñado para la docencia presencial y será adaptada en el caso de que entremos en un nuevo estado de emergencia sanitaria y tengamos que pasar a docencia virtual. En tal caso, se colgará en el aula virtual Egela la versión actualizada del programa y el nuevo sistema de evaluación.



This evaluation system is designed for face-to-face teaching and will be adapted in the event that we enter a new state of health emergency and have to go to virtual teaching. In this case, the updated version of the program and the new evaluation system will be posted in the Egela virtual classroom.



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Bibliography

Compulsory materials

(1) Chierchia, Gennaro, and Sally McConnell-Ginet. Meaning and grammar: An introduction to semantics. MIT press, 2000.



(2) Heim, Irene, and Angelika Kratzer. Semantics in generative grammar. Vol. 13. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.



(3) Kearns, Kate. Semantics. Palgrave modern linguistics. 2nd edition, 2000.



(4) Jacobson, Pauline. Compositional Semantics. An Introduction to the Syntax/Semantics Interface. Oxford University Press, 2014.



(5) Levinson, Stephen C. Pragmatics. Cambridge University Press, 1983.



(6) Maienborn, Claudia, Klaus von Heusinger, and Paul Portner, eds. Semantics: An international handbook of natural language meaning. Vol. 33. Walter de Gruyter, 2011.



(7) Zimmermann, Thomas Ede, and Wolfgang Sternefeld. Introduction to semantics: an essential guide to the composition of meaning. Walter de Gruyter, 2013.

Basic bibliography

(1) Chierchia, Gennaro, and Sally McConnell-Ginet. Meaning and grammar: An introduction to semantics. MIT press, 2000.

(2) von Fintel, Kai, and Irene Heim. Intensional Semantics. MIT. Spring 2011 edition.

(3) Heim, Irene, and Angelika Kratzer. Semantics in generative grammar. Vol. 13. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.

(4) Kearns, Kate. Semantics. Palgrave modern linguistics. 2nd edition, 2000.

(5) Jacobson, Pauline. Compositional Semantics. An Introduction to the Syntax/Semantics Interface. Oxford University Press, 2014.

(6) Levinson, Stephen C. Pragmatics. Cambridge University Press, 1983.

(7) Maienborn, Claudia, Klaus von Heusinger, and Paul Portner, eds. Semantics: An international handbook of natural language meaning. Vol. 33. Walter de Gruyter, 2011.

(8) Partee, Barbara H., Alice ter Meulen, and Robert E. Wall. Mathematical methods in Linguistics. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990.

(9) Williams, Alexander. Arguments in syntax and semantics. Cambridge University Press, 2015.

(10) Zimmermann, Thomas Ede, and Wolfgang Sternefeld. Introduction to semantics: an essential guide to the composition of meaning. Walter de Gruyter, 2013.

In-depth bibliography

(1) Carlson, Gregory N. The generic book. University of Chicago Press, 1995.



(2) Chung, Sandra, and William A. Ladusaw. Restriction and saturation. MIT press, 2004.



(3) Geurts, Bart. Quantity implicatures. Cambridge University Press, 2010.



(4) Grice, Paul, and H. Paul Grice. Studies in the Way of Words. Harvard University Press, 1991.



(5) Horn Laurence, R. "On the Semantic Properties of Logical Operators in English." University of California Los Angeles Ph. D. dissertation (1972).



(6) Kamp, Hans, and Barbara Partee. "Prototype theory and compositionality." Cognition 57.2 (1995): 129-191.



(7) Kennedy, Christopher. "Vagueness and grammar: The semantics of relative and absolute gradable adjectives." Linguistics and philosophy 30.1 (2007): 1-45.



(8) Kennedy, Christopher, and Louise McNally. "Scale structure, degree modification, and the semantics of gradable predicates." Language (2005): 345-381.



(9) McNally, Louise. ¿Modification". Cambridge Handbook of Semantics. Cambridge University Press, 2015.



(10) Morzycki, Marcin. Modification. Cambridge University Press, 2013.



(11) Portner, Paul, and Barbara Partee, eds. Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2002. ISBN: 0631215425.

Journals

Linguistics & Philosophy



Natural Language & Linguistic Theory



Natural Language Semantics



Semantics and Pragmatics



Journal of Semantics



Language

Links

http://semanticsarchive.net/



http://lambdacalculator.com/



https://youtu.be/0VV-1NDKmEc [Barbara Partee, The history of formal semantics]