SEMANTICS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: LINGUIS 330 Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply and interpret appropriate linguistic tests to distinguish between different types of linguistic meaning (literal meaning, presupposition, implicature). Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Read, write, and translate common formal semantic notation systems, including propositional and predicate logic, set theory notation, direct interpretive rules, and semantic type notation. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Derive the semantic interpretation of a complex sentence from its component parts, using appropriate formal tools and various types of interpretation methods. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Discuss the relevance of key empirical facts about human language for aspects of theoretical semantic models. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Apply semantic terms and concepts to read, summarize, and discuss linguistic research in compositional semantics. Audience: Graduate 6. Identify and evaluate empirical and theoretical limitations, problems and issues with existing theories of semantics. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply and interpret appropriate linguistic tests to distinguish between different types of linguistic meaning (literal meaning, presupposition, implicature). Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Read, write, and translate common formal semantic notation systems, including propositional and predicate logic, set theory notation, direct interpretive rules, and semantic type notation. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Derive the semantic interpretation of a complex sentence from its component parts, using appropriate formal tools and various types of interpretation methods. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Discuss the relevance of key empirical facts about human language for aspects of theoretical semantic models. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Apply semantic terms and concepts to read, summarize, and discuss linguistic research in compositional semantics. Audience: Graduate 6. Identify and evaluate empirical and theoretical limitations, problems and issues with existing theories of semantics. Audience: Graduate