After the course, the student will be able to: critically study linguistic literature on semantics, connect semantic theorizing to different types of empirical phenomena, formulate testable empirical questions, and analyze results of empirical tests.
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Semantic theory relies on various empirical methods, including experimental psycholinguistics, corpus analysis and linguistic questionnaires. The course presents topics where developing formal semantic theories heavily depends on empirical work: conceptual semantics, common sense reasoning, plurals and generics. Students choose a theoretical problem and study selected articles on that problem. Based on this study, students formulate an empirical hypothesis and test it in the end project.
Career orientation:
Experimental research.
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