Learning objectives
The objective of the course is to introduce to the contemporary debate on logical form and on the logical-philosophical analysis of natural language.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites. It is however useful to have a rudimentary knowledge of the logic of propositions and of the calculus of first order.
Course unit content
The purpose of the course is the syntactical and semantic analyses of sentences. Some modern and contemporary theories will be considered offering logical and linguistic analyses; in particular those of Frege, Russell, Quine (with regard to logic tradition), Chomski, Montague, Lambek (regarding the linguistic or logical-linguistic tradition.
Full programme
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Bibliography
Lecture notess relating to the courses can be downloaded from the website http://www.slprbo.unipr.it in the folder "documents" (password access for course participants).
Teaching methods
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Other information
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