Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2504211 Spanish Language and Literature | OT | 3 | 0 |
2504211 Spanish Language and Literature | OT | 4 | 0 |
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This is a course that tackles interpretative and formal aspects in the scope of Spanish grammar. Therefore, to do it, knowledge about Spanish grammar, compositional semantics and general linguistics is required.
In this course, we tackle one the main subjects that concern to the meaning of complex expressions, that is, their compositional nature. This approach implies the assumption that not all the linguisitic units that form a complex expression contribute in the same way to its interpretation. In addition, it implies the assumption of the
close relation that exists between sintax and semantics. The intention of this course is that the student, at the end of the course, can:
- Indentify what aspects of meaning compete to compositional semantics.
- Analize semantically Spanish complex expressions by following the principles of compositional semantics.
- Master the basic concepts and tools that train for analysis and argumentation in compositional semantics.
- Recognize the existing links between compositional semantics and other subjects, both linguistic (sintai, lexicology, pragmatics), and not linguistics (filosofy, logic, mathematics).
1. Introduction to Compositional Semantics:
2. The semantics of modification.
3. Determination and quantification.
4. The semantics of time.
5. From the semantics of the sentence to the semantics of the discourse.
This course will be based on theoretical and practical sessions. The former will deal with the main contents of the program; the latter will be dedicated to the resolution of exercices, to comment the relevant bibliography and to discuss the problems, dubts o difficulties that may come up from the development of the course syllabus. The practical sessions will also train the student in the application of semantic argumentation. The learning of this subject by the students is distributed as follows:
- Directed activities (35%). These activities are divided into master classes and seminars and classroom practices led by the faculty, in which theoretical explanation is combined with dicussion of all types of texts.
- Supervised activities (10%). These tutorials are programmed by the teacher, dedicated to correcting and commenting on problems at the different levels of linguistic analysis.
- Autonomous activities (45%). These activities include both time devoted to individual study and analytical comments written, as well as oral presentations.
- Assessment activities (10%). The assessment of this subject will be taken by written tests.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Directed activities | 42 | 1.68 | 2, 1, 10, 3, 4, 8, 19, 20, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Supervised activities | 20 | 0.8 | 2, 1, 10, 3, 4, 8, 19, 20, 13, 14, 16, 17 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Autonomous activities | 65 | 2.6 | 2, 1, 10, 3, 4, 8, 19, 20, 13, 14, 16, 17 |
1. Continuous assessment
1.1. Criteria for the grading the course
In order to pass the course, after completing the three evaluable activities mentioned above and after applying the percentages indicated above, the student must get a final grade equal or greater than 5. If the final grade is
1.2 Re-evaluation criteria
Students who get a final grade between 3.5 and 5 and who have carried out the three assessable activities mentioned above will be eligible for re-evaluation of the course on the date set by the Faculty. If the re-evaluation test is passed, the final grade for the subject will be 5, regardless of the grades obtained before. Students who have passed the course will not be allowed to re-evaluate to increase their grade.
1.3 Evaluation criteria
In order to pass the exam, mastery of the normative is considered essential; therefore, when evaluating the activities mentioned above, spelling errors, incorrect use of punctuation, lexical errors and morphosyntactic errors will be penalized.
1.4 Review procedure for evaluable evidence
After the publication of the gradingof the evaluable activities mentioned above, the teacher will inform the students through Moodle of the day and time for the review of such activities.
1.5 Misconduct in assessment activities
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
2. Single assessment
Assessment activities |
Weight |
Exam 1 |
45% |
Exam 2 |
45% |
Delivery of homework |
10% |
Everything established in points 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 of the previous section is also applicable to the single assessment. The date for the single evaluation will coincide with the date of Exam 2 of the continuous assessment. The teacher will communicate to the student the date for the single evaluation through Moodle at the beginning of the course.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Exam 1 | 45% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 2, 4, 13, 14, 17 |
Exam 2 | 45% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 2, 4, 13, 14, 17 |
Participation in class | 10% | 20 | 0.8 | 2, 1, 10, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 19, 20, 5, 11, 13, 12, 14, 16, 17, 15, 18 |
Bach, Edmon. (1997): Lecciones básicas de semántica formal, Barcelona, Publicaciones de la UB.
Cann, Ronnie (1993): Formal Semantics: An Introduction, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Escandell, Mª Victoria. (2004): Fundamentos de semántica composicional, Barcelona, Ariel, Cambridge University Press.
Espinal, Mª Teresa. coord. (2014):Semántica, Madrid, Akal.
Does not apply.