course information
Instructor: Prerna Nadathur [email]
Office: 24.53.00.87 (Department office: 24.53.00.86)
Schedule: Tu 8.30-10.00
Location: 24.21.U1.21 (Z50)
Course policies and requirements: Please see the syllabus.
course materials & schedule
All course materials will be posted on this page. Please check back regularly. Readings can be downloaded by clicking the following link and entering the course password. If you do not have the password, please email me.
January 20, 2020: FINAL EXAM is now available.. The exam is a take-home exam. You may NOT work with others. Due: February 4, 2020, by 11:59pm.
NB: Readings should be completed prior to the class for which they are assigned. Assignments can be emailed to me or handed in on paper. Lectures and assignments will be given in English. Assignments completed in English will be assessed on content alone, and will NOT be penalized for any grammatical errors. I recommend completing assignments in English; however, if you strongly prefer to do them in German, please let me know in advance so that I can make arrangements for you to receive feedback.
| Week | Date | Topics | Reading | Assignment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 08.10.2019 | Introduction: course overview and background Handout. |
Optional reading (recommended): Barker 2006 | |
| 2 | 15.10.2019 | Sense relations, polysemy Handout. |
Cruse 1995; Dölling (to appear) Supplementary: Lingua special issue on polysemy, 2015. |
Assignment 1 |
| 3 | 22.10.2019 | Lexical encoding, types of lexical information: verbs of judging Handout. |
Fillmore 1969 (opt); Fillmore 1971; McCawley 1979 | Assignment 1 due |
| 4 | 29.10.2019 | Lexical information across categories, grammatical regularities Handout |
Clark & Clark 1979; Kiparsky 1997 | Assignment 2 |
| 5 | 05.11.2019 | Nouns: kinds, mass/count distinction Handout |
Murphy 2010 (Ch. 8) | Assignment 2 due |
| 6 | 12.11.2019 | Adjectives: property concepts, antonymy, vagueness Handout. |
Murphy 2010 (Ch. 11), Dixon 1982; Kennedy 2012 Optional: Wierzbicka 1988 |
Assignment 3 |
| 7 | 19.11.2019 | Scales and pragmatic enrichment Handout |
Horn 1984 | Assignment 3 due |
| 8 | 26.11.2019 | Lexical meaning and grammatical structure: thematic roles Handout |
Davis 2011; Levin & Rappaport Hovav 2005 (excerpts) | Assignment 4 |
| 9 | 03.12.2019 | Argument alternations Handout |
Fillmore 1970; Johnson 2008 | |
| 10 | 10.12.2019 | Analytical causatives Handout |
Wierzbicka 1998 | Assignment 4 due |
| 11 | 17.12.2019 | Aspectual classes Handout |
Vendler 1957; Dowty 1977; Mittwoch 2019 | |
| 12 | 07.01.2020 | Lexical aspect continued Supplement on inference types Handout |
Bach 1986; Krifka 1989; Rappaport Hovav 2008 | Assignment 5 |
| 13 | 14.01.2020 | Manner/result duality Handout |
Slobin 1996; Rappaport Hovav & Levin 2010 | Assignment 5 due |
| 14 | 21.01.2020 | Inferential properties of words (factives, implicatives) Handout |
Kiparsky & Kiparsky 1970; Karttunen 1971 | FINAL EXAM, due Feb 4 by 11:59pm | 15 | 28.01.2020 | Review Overview of topics |