Semantics

DAY	DATE	TOPIC	READING
	9/4-9/6	What is meaning? Word meaning vs. other symbol systems. Semantic features or atoms. The segmentation of reality.	Bolinger
M	9/9	Meaning and categorization	Taylor 1-20
W	9/11	Meaning relations in the lexicon. Synonymy.	Taylor cont.; Ullman
F	9/13	Ambiguity.	"
M	9/16	Lexical structures. Types of structures.	Tyler
W	9/18	Hyponymy, antonymy and other relations.	"
F	9/20	Semantic fields.	Lehrer
M	9/23	Fields; More meaning relations. Verb meaning.	Lehrer cont. (supp: Miller & Fellbaum)
W	9/25	Componential semantics.	Taylor 21-37; Bierwisch
F	9/27	Semantics of dimensional terms	Bierwisch cont. (supp.: Katz & Fodor)
M	9/30	"	"
W	10/2	New tools for semantics. Scenes, frames,	Fillmore 1
F	10/4	prototypes.	Fillmore 2
M	10/7	Categorization. Universal patterns.	Clark & Clark
W	10/9	Relation of linguistic and cognitive categories.	"
F	10/11	Evidence for prototype categorization.	Taylor 38-58 (supp.: Rosch)
M	10/14	A cognitive view of prototypes.	"
W	10/16	Prototypes and schematic categories.	" , 59-80
F	10/18	Category acquisition.	Taylor 239-256
M	10/21	No class. Midterm break.
W	10/23	The semantics of everyday concepts.	Wierzbicka
F	10/25	Encyclopedic semantics. Another semantic	"
M	10/28	metalanguage.	" ; Taylor 81-98
W	10/30	Metaphor. The most powerful	Lakoff 1
F	11/1	reasoning tool.	" ; Taylor 122-141
M	11/4	Image Schemas. Schemas in reasoning.	(supp.: Turner)
W	11/6	Semantics of spatial terms.	Taylor 99-121
F	11/8	Polysemy. Extensions of a spatial category.	(supp: Lakoff 2)
M	11/11	Polysemy networks and image schemas.	"
W	11/13	Cognitive implications.	"
F	11/15	Lexicalization patterns. Crosslinguistic	Talmy
M	11/18	variation in coding of motion and	"
W	11/20	path. Satellites.	"
F	11/22	Semantic change. Types; sociocultural factors	Ullman
M	11/25	Application of semantic tools to change.	"
W	11/27	Universals factors in change.	Traugott
F	11/29	No class. Thanksgiving.
M	12/2	Change from lexical to grammatical.	"
W	12/4	An integrated view of linguistic semantics.	Langacker
F	12/6	More tools for semantic description.	"
M	12/9	Partial compositionality; sentence meaning.	(supp: Palmer)
W	12/11	Conclusion. Directions for cognitive semantics.