PHIL 4730

Semantics I

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Introduces methods for theorizing about meaning within generative grammar. These techniques allow the creation of grammars that pair syntactic structures with meanings. Students look at several empirical areas in detail, among them complementation (combining heads with their arguments), modification, conjunction, definite descriptions, relative clauses, traces, bound pronouns, and quantification. An introduction to logical and mathematical concepts used in linguistic semantics (e.g., set theory, functions and their types, and the lambda notation for naming linguistic meanings) is included in the course.

Prerequisites REF-FA25/Corequisites REF-FA25 LING 3303 or permission of instructor. Corequisites: None.

Distribution Requirements (KCM-AG), (ETM-AS, SMR-AS)

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