Course content

The course will focus on two areas: (1) an introduction to models which combine syntactic and semantic analysis in an explicit formal description; (2) empirically based studies of linguistic phenomena in which syntactic and semantic analysis are combined.

Part (1) is based on formal Semantics and Constraint-based Grammar. Phenomena studied in part (2) are drawn from languages in which the student has enough data (e.g. corpora, existing descriptions, etc.). Both (1) and (2) will show how syntactic-semantic analysis can be given a computational implementation.

Learning outcome

To make students familiar with formal syntactic and semantic analysis.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures and group instructions. More on assessment: Obligatory exercises have to be approved before the student may take the written exam. The size of the exercises must be between 2-4 A4-pages each, with the use of standard Linguistic formats.

Compulsory assignments

• 3 approved exercises

Recommended previous knowledge

LING1111 and LING1113.