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The conceptual foundations of formal semantics, the principal of compositionality, assertion, presupposition and implicature
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The semantics of deictic expressions
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The Gricean theory of conversational implicature
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Sense vs. reference – the semiotic triangle: from symbols to referents via concepts
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Levels of meaning: lexical meaning, sentence meaning, utterance meaning; Linguistic knowledge vs. encyclopedic knowledge
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Semiotic foundations: icons, indexes, symbols
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The aboutness dimension: intension, extension, denotation, reference
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Semantics vs pragmatics
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Midterm
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What is logic, and why and how does it matter in linguistics? truth conditions, entailment, equivalence, contradiction, Synthetic and analytic inferences
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Presupposition
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Categorization and structured extensions: attributes, necessary and sufficient conditions, prototypes, family resemblances, conceptual networks
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Metaphor and metonymy: the cognitive basis of semantic transfer and semantic change
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Lexical meaning relations: ambiguity, vagueness, polysemy, homonymy, hyponymy, meronymy
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Logical relations in the lexicon: antonyms, synonyms, reverses, converses
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Relativism
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Final exam
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