Upon successful completion of this course, each student should:

• distinguish utterances from sentences
• identify morphemes, lexemes, content words and function words in a given text
• undesrtand basic semantic relations, including homonymy, synonymy, polysemy, metaphor, metonymy, hyponymy, vagueness and inheritence, ambiguity, vagueness and polysemy,
• undesrtand the extend and possible limits of compositionality in natural language,
• know about different views on linguistic categorization
• classify events as to theişr inherent temporal information
• know the linking problem in verb semantics