FI:P122 Formal structure of NL - Course Information

P122 Formal structure of natural language

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2001

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

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Timetable

Fri 9:00–10:50 C511

Prerequisites (in Czech)

Doporučeno před zápisem Základu počítačové lingvistiky a Úvodu do korpusové lingvistiky.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

Syllabus

Language and its function: communicative, conative, referential, phatic, expressive, aesthetic.
The sign nature and the systematic nature of language; semiology.
Phonology; the articulatory and acoustic features of phones.
Phonemics; phonem, phonological opposition, distinctive feature.
Morphology, grammatical categories of gender, number, case, person, tense, aspect, mood, voice; morphological typology of languages.
Formal syntax (descriptive, generative), functional syntax (dependence and case grammar).
Speech acts theory; textual linguistics.
Lexicology; semasiology, onomasiology; lexicography.

Literature

Úvod do studia jazyka. Edited by Jiří Černý. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Rubico, 1998, 243 s. ISBN 80-85839-24-5. info
MATERNA, Pavel, Karel PALA and Jiří ZLATUŠKA. Logická analýza přirozeného jazyka. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1989, 143 s. ISBN 80-200-0027-5. info
HJELMSLEV, Louis. O základech teorie jazyka. Translated by František Čermák. Vydání 1. Praha: Academia, 1972, 154 stran. info
LYONS, John. Introduction to theoretical linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968, x, 519. ISBN 0521095107. info