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Lecturer(s)
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Dostálová Ludmila, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Principals of formal semantics (denotation, truth-conditioning of meaning, compositionality). Extensional semantics (set-theoretic model theory, categorial grammar, theory of types). Intensional semantics (possible-worlds semantics, Montague grammar). Hyperintensional semantics (impossible-possible-worlds semantics, Transparent intensional logic). Dynamic semantics.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Students' self-study, Lecture, Practicum
- Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40)
- 26 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 26 hours per semester
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| Course requires no special prior knowledge and skills. |
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| Students will understand the crucial systems of formal semantics. They will be able to place them into the historical as well as theoretical context of the analytic philosophy and the philosophy of language. They will acquire practical skills of using these systems. |
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| Self-study of literature |
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Recommended literature
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BENTHEM, Johann van - MEULEN, Alice ter (eds.). Handbook of Logic and Language. Oxford: Elsevier & Cambridge (Mass.) : MIT Press, 1997.
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CANN, Ronnie. Formal Semantics: An Introduction. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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Cmorej, Pavel. Úvod do logickej syntaxe a sémantiky. Praha : Triton, 2002. ISBN 80-7254-294-X.
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GAMUT, L. T. F. Logic, Language and Meaning. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991.
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Peregrin, Jaroslav. Úvod do teoretické sémantiky : principy formálního modelování významu. 2., aktualiz. vyd. Praha : Univerzita Karlova, 2003. ISBN 80-246-0635-6.
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Tugendhat, Ernst; Wolf, Ursula. Logicko-sémantická propedeutika. [1. vyd.]. Praha : Petr Rezek, 1997. ISBN 80-86027-02-3.
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