Coordinator: Francis Bond
<bond@ieee.org>:
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021.
Tutor: Yu Jianrong (YJ) <jianrong.yu@ntu.edu.sg>
In this core course you will learn semantics at an introductory level and the skills needed to carry out semantic analysis. With these skills and your knowledge of semantic approaches, you will be able to analyze natural language data, as well as develop awareness of the inherent connections between semantics and other branches of linguistics.
Course Page: https://bond-lab.github.io/Semantics-and-Pragmatics/
Source: https://github.com/bond-lab/Semantics-and-Pragmatics
The text book is:
I expect you to read all chapters assigned before class and attempt the tutorial. That way the information will be in your mind when I discuss it in class. We have a tutorial on week one (but you do not have to preread).
| Lecture | Date | Slides | Tute | Saeed | Misc | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 08-10 | Introduction, Organization: What does it mean to mean? | 01 | Ch 1 | We will do Tutorial One This week | 😆Evil
Overlord Mitchel and Webb
🤔Intro to Information Theory Up and Atom |
| 2 | 08-17 | Meaning, Thought and Reality | 02 | Ch 2 and 7.2 (Deixis) | Reference (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | 😆Blackberry
One Ronnie
🤔Theories of Proper Names (Dr. Nimer Abusalim) |
| 3 | 08-24 | Word Meaning | 03 | Ch 3 |
Distributional
Semantics James Pustejovsky, slides by Steven Evert
More on alternations |
😆Dead
Parrot Monty Python
🤔Linking the word's languages in the Open Multilingual Wordnet Francis Bond 🤔The surprising pattern behind color names around the world Vox Video Lab (2017) 🤔Natural Semantic Metalanguage Maria Zijlstra talking with Anna Wierzbicka on ABC radio (2017) |
| 4 | 08-31 | Sentence Relations and Truth | 04
Answer |
Ch 4, 10.2–5 | Practice Quiz Logical Fallacies |
😆Argument Sketch Monty Python |
| 5 | 09-07 | Situations | 05
Answer |
Ch 5 | Quiz 1 | 😆Ann Elk, Miss Monty Python |
| 6 | 09-14 | Participants | 06
Answer |
Ch 6 | Introduce Assignment | 😆Does your dog bite? The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) |
| 7 | 09-21 | Context and Inference | 07
Answer |
Ch 7 | 😆Unique Alas Smith and Jones | |
| - | Recess | |||||
| 8 | 10-05 | Speech as Action | 08
Answer |
Ch 8 | 😆Can you get that? Big Bang Theory | |
| 9 | 10-12 | Meaning Components | 09
Answer |
Ch 9 | Quiz 2
Assignment Round 1 due (Oct 15) |
😆Language Fry & Laurie
Transcriptions: Sketch 1 Sketch 2 Stephen Fry on Language |
| 10 | 10-19 | Formal Semantics | 10
Answer |
Ch 10 | We will not cover dynamic approaches to discourse | 😆Regency disco Mitchel and Webb |
| 11 | 10-26 | Cognitive Linguistics | 11
Answer |
Ch 11 | 😆A
bigger spoon
That Mitchell and Webb Situation 😆National Funk Congress Deadlocked On Get Up/Get Down IssueThe Onion (1999) |
|
| 12 | 11-02 | Revision | Revision | 😆I want to cook with you IT Crowd | ||
| Quiz 3 | 11-09 | 10:30-11:00 | Quiz 3
Assignment due (Nov 18 23:59) |
|||
Slides may be updated at any time!
Dictionaries can not be used in the quizzes or exams.