Spring Term 2018 Words, Words, Words: Introduction to Lexical Semantics - 3637 - LING 335 |
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Prerequisites/Notes: LING 150 Catalog Description : This course introduces fundamental concepts and research issues in the linguistic study of word meaning. Topics include: representation of word meaning; relation between lexical, truth-conditional and context-dependent meanings; semantic relations; meaning variation; semantic properties of nouns and verbs (e.g. mass-count distinction, verb classes, aspect, semantic roles); interaction between content and function words. PREREQUISITES: LING 150 Attributes: 200-399 Foundation/Gateway Crs
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