Linguistics (LALS)
School of Linguistics and Language Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
LALS 4507 [0.5 credit]
Semantics II
Further study of language meaning. Syntax-semantics interface. Semantic compositionality, including a basic formal approach. Other possible topics: discourse semantics, formal pragmatics, semantics and cognition, issues in contemporary semantic theory. (Also listed as
PHIL 4505.)
Prerequisite:
LALS 3505 or
PHIL 3506 or permission of the Department of Philosophy or School of Linguistics and Language Studies.
Lectures three hours a week.