LING 254A SEM 2 "Locatives", Spring 2008


Time and Place: Tuesday & Thursday 14-15:50, Rolfe 3123

Course ID: 65340602

Description:

Locative expressions are abundant in language, yet they have not been as much studied as, for example, tense. Recently, one notices a growing interest in space and spatial expressions (there is a new series "Explorations in Language and Space" by Oxford University Press and various books among other by Robert Levinson). The pro- seminar is devoted to the study of locatives. I propose to cover (depending on time) the following topics:

Prerequisites:

No special knowledge besides basic linguistic training is needed. The mathematics and formal semantics which is involved is fairly basic.

Material (under construction, comments welcome):

☛ An extensive LaTeX bibilography for your perusal.

☛ A course reader.