Time, event, action, perfectivity, imperfectivity. Semantics and grammatical categories of the verb in consideration to the ontology of situation

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Course ID:	3003-CZD-OG
Erasmus code / ISCED:	(unknown) / (0232) Literature and linguistics The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Time, event, action, perfectivity, imperfectivity. Semantics and grammatical categories of the verb in consideration to the ontology of situation
Name in Polish:	Czas, zdarzenie, działanie, dokonaność i niedokonaność. Semantyka i kategorie gramatyczne czasownika a ontologia sytuacji
Organizational unit:	Institute of Polish Language
Course groups:	General university courses General university courses in Faculty of Polish Studies General university courses in the humanities
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	general courses
Prerequisites (description):	An universal actional verb classification could be used widely to describe the grammatical categories of tense and aspect, to define the parallelisms in translation, to describe meaning relations in dictionaries and thesauri, to summarize texts and extract actional information from them. In the seminar basic actional classification will be presented, the semantic invariants of the perfective and the imperfective aspect and the semantic opposition in aspect pairs and beyond will be defined, as well as the functions of relative and absolute tenses.
Mode:	Classroom
Short description:	In the seminar an actional classification of Polish verbs will be carried on considering the verbal aspect. Basic actional classifications will be presented: Vendler (1967), Laskowski (1997),l Polish WordNet classification (plwordnet.pw.wroc.pl) or a classification of states and events based on Petrie nets (Kosseska 1997). Later, the semantic invariants of the perfective and the imperfective aspect and the semantic opposition in aspect pairs and beyond will be defined, as well as the functions of relative and absolute tenses.
Full description:	In the seminar an actional classification of Polish verbs will be carried on considering the verbal aspect. Different semantic groups of verbs represent different actional classes of situations, as events, e.g. zwyciężyć, actions, eg. pisać/napisać, processes, e.g. schnąć/wyschnąć, activities, eg. biegać, bzyczeć, states, np. stać, and atemporal relations, e.g. równać się. The crucial opposition is drawn between the events, denoted per default by the perfective aspect, and other situation types, denoted by the imperfective aspect. Unfortunately, there is no universally approved verb classification, which could be used widely to describe the grammatical categories of tense and aspect, to define the parallelisms in translation, to describe meaning relations in dictionaries and thesauri, to summarize texts and extract actional information from them. In the seminar basic actional classification will be presented: Vendler (1967), Laskowski (1997),l Polish WordNet classification (plwordnet.pw.wroc.pl) or a classification of states and events based on Petrie nets (Kosseska 1997). Later, the semantic invariants of the perfective and the imperfective aspect and the semantic opposition in aspect pairs and beyond will be defined, as well as the functions of relative and absolute tenses. The learned classification will be then applied in tagging aspect pairs in a real corpus and dictionaries.
Bibliography:	Gramatyka współczesnego języka polskiego. Morfologia, red. R. Grzegorczykowa, R. Laskowski, H. Wróbel, 1998, Warszawa Mazurkiewicz, A. (1986). Zdarzenia i stany: elementy temporalności. Studia gramatyczne bułgarsko-polskie, I. Temporalność. Wrocław, 203-215. (In Polish) Koseska-Toszewa, V. , A. Mazurkiewicz (2010): Constructing catalogue of temporal situations, Cognitive Studies 10 Vendler Z. 1967: Linguistics in Philosophy
Learning outcomes:	After the seminar its participants are able to classify situation types in Polish and English, to determine the aspect value in various verbal forms and to match the aspect partners and their tyupes. They are able to apply the classification on tagging the web language ressources and devices.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Participation in the group work, list of attendences.
Practical placement:	No.

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