COGS522 LEXICAL SEMANTICS
| Course Code: |
9020522 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
| Department: |
Cognitive Sciences |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
Lecturer Dr. CEYHAN TEMÜRCÜ |
| Offered Semester: |
Once in several years. |
Course Content
Lexical relations, approaches to meaning components (binary features, logical decomposition, semantic primitives), lexical organization (categorization, prototypes, metaphor, metonymy, semantic maps), lexical meaning and compositionality, verb semantics (event classification, event structure, argument structure, linking problem), lexicon in computational theories of grammar, close up on Pustejovsky s generative lexicon.
