Richter: Lexical Semantics (WS 10/11)

General Information on the Course

Course Description in the Campus system
Time: Our class meets Mondays and Wednesdays, 14ct-15.45 (SfS, seminar room 1.13)
Office Hours: Mondays, 11-12.00, SfS, Room 2.17, f.richter@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Grading Policy and background information on the course format (handout of October 18th)
Official statement to be included (and signed) in every Schriftliche Hausarbeit or written summary
Oral Presentations - A Practical Guide. Slides with advice on how to prepare and give presentations

Course Materials in Moodle

All course readings are available in Moodle in the file folder readings. To get access you need to register for the course in Moodle.
Note that the course is located in the archive (WS 2009/2010), not in the current semester.

Preliminary List of Readings

David Dowty (1979): Word Meaning and Montague Grammar. The Semantics of Verbs and Times in Generative Semantics and in Montague's PTQ. D. Reidel Publishing Company. Dordrecht.
Nicola Guarino, Daniel Oberle, Steffen Staab (2009): What is an Ontology? In: S. Staab, R. Studer (eds): Handbook on Ontologies. Springer. Berlin, Heidelberg.
Graeme Hirst (2009): Ontology and the Lexicon. In: S. Staab, R. Studer (eds): Handbook on Ontologies. Springer. Berlin, Heidelberg.
Daniel Jurafsky, James H. Martin (2008): Speech and Language Processing. Pearson, 2nd edition. Chapter 19
Jean-Pierre Koenig, Anthony Davis (2003): Semantically transparent linking in HPSG. In: S. Müller (ed): Proceedings of the HPSG03 Conference. CSLI Publications.
Manfred Krifka (1992): Thematic Relations as Links between Nominal Reference and Temporal Constitution. In: Ivan A. Sag, Anna Szabolcsi (eds): Lexical Matters. CSLI Publications, Stanford.
Beth Levin (1993): English Verb Classes and Alternations. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago and London.
James Pustejovsky (1995): The Generative Lexicon. The MIT Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Zeno Vendler (1967): Linguistics in Philosophy. Cornell University Press. Ithaca, New York. Chapters 4 and 5
to be continued...

Frank Richter