Kommentar für "auslaufende Studiengänge Lehramt/Magister": hier gültig als HS Montague Grammar is a framework for semantic construction, i.e., the derivation of the meaning of sentences and other complex constituents (based on the meanings of their parts and the underlying syntactic structure). The exact nature of semantic construction is interesting both from a theoretical perspective (focussing on the fundamental relation between syntax and semantics in general) and from the viewpoint of natural language processing (interpreting linguistic expressions in
concrete systems for human-computer interaction).
Montague Grammar was a major breakthrough in formal linguistic theory building and formulated many of the basic insights and fundamental issues of the syntax-semantics interface that are highly relevant up to the present day.
The course offers an introduction into the framework that does not require previous knowledge in logic and/or formal semantics (the course can be adapted to the knowledge level of the participants, though). The course is based on the textbook "Introduction to Montague Semantics" of Dowty et al. (1981). |
