Dr. Chan Somnoble
Year I, Semester I
This course complements the Lexicography and Lexicology subject, taken simultaneously. Students discuss the different approaches to the study the problem of the emergence of meaning in language proposed by various linguistic schools. As part of this, students explore the meaning of sentences, sentence constituents, and compare polysemy to semantic identity. Topics covered include syntax and semantics, the role of grammar, the foundations of tense and aspect categories, predicates, transitivity, how to deal with polycategorical units and how to distinguish word classes in Khmer.