1. Course Aims:
i. To provide an introduction to the study of meaning in language within the framework of generative grammar;
ii. To compare some different approaches to the study of linguistic meaning;
iii. To learn to distinguish different types of meaning encoded in and expressed by language;
iv. To explore the semantic relationships between words, classes of words, and between sentences;
v. To investigate the relationship between meaning and syntax and become familiar with a range of models which linguists have proposed to account for some regularities between meaning and syntax;
vi. While English will be the main language under investigation, we will also take into account data from other languages to compare the relationship between form and meaning in different languages and to test the cross-linguistic validity of some claims about the relationship between form and meaning in human languages;
vii. To learn to analyse a range of linguistic examples by doing regular practical exercises involving a wide range of data.