Richter: Negative Polarity Items (SS 07)

General Information on the Course

Course Description (in German)
Time: Our class meets Mondays, 7.30-9.00, and Wednesdays, 9ct-11.00.
Language: The course language is English.
Office Hour: Tuesdays, 10.00-11.00, SfS, Room 2.17 (Email: f.richter@em.uni-frankfurt.de)
Official statement to be included (and signed) in every Schriftliche Hausarbeit or written summary
List of Course Readings

Seminar Hand-outs and Slides

Grading Policy, Course Readings, etc. (April 23)
Time Table, Additional Paper (April 25)
Three handouts (April 23) with
- Suggested readings for logic in linguistic semantics
- Syntax and Semantics of First Order Predicate Logic
- Syntax and Semantics of Higher Order Logic
Timm Lichte: The Retrieval and Classification of NPIs (June 20th, 25th and 27th)
Short Overview of LRS (part of a joint talk with Gerald Penn in June 2007)
Janina Radó: Human Processing of Polarity Items (July 9th and 11th)

On-line Literature Links

Timm Lichte and Jan-Philipp Soehn (to appear): The Retrieval and Classification of Negative Polarity Items using Statistical Profiles. In: Featherston/Sternefeld (eds.): Roots: Linguistics in search of its evidential base. Mouton de Gruyter.

Student Presentations

Armin W. Buch: Krifka's Theory of NPIs

A few relevant websites

on linguistics and on HPSG

at the SfS:
at the Universität Tübingen:
- The Library Catalogue
- Sonderforschungsbereich 441 Linguistische Datenstrukturen
elsewhere in the world:

on computational resources useful for this course