'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe. All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe.
Now make dictionary entries for the lexical ietmes in the poem. Some types of lexical information are easy to define for these terms, others are not. In this class we weill be discussing lexical semantics and the approaches which have been proposed for defining different kinds of meaning: definitions, contextual meaning, semantic components, semantic relations, semantic fields, semantic prototypes, logical meaning, compositional meaning.
A further dimension is etymology, for example explaining meaning changes between related word forms such as "Discus, Diskus, dish, Tisch, desk, disk, Diskette", or "shirt, skirt, Schürze". Explaining how children acquire word meanings (either in a first or a second language) is another relevant area.
Participants are expected to have completed their Grundstudium or the Basismodule, and therefore to have a basic working knowledge of linguistics.