FI:PV122 Formal structure of NL - Course Information

PV122 Formal structure of natural language

Extent and Intensity

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

Teacher(s)

PhDr. Petr Peňáz (lecturer)
Mgr. Ondřej Nečas (assistant)

Guaranteed by

prof. Ing. Václav Přenosil, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: PhDr. Petr Peňáz

Timetable

Fri 12:00–13:50 B411

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

• Applied Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
• Applied Informatics (programme FI, N-AP)
• Information Technology Security (programme FI, N-IN)
• Bioinformatics (programme FI, B-AP)
• Bioinformatics (programme FI, N-AP)
• Information Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-BI)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-FY)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-GE)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-GK)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-CH)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-IO)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-MA)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-TV)
• Informatics (eng.) (programme FI, D-IN4)
• Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
• Informatics (programme FI, D-IN4)
• Informatics (programme FI, N-IN)
• Public Administration Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
• Mathematical Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
• Parallel and Distributed Systems (programme FI, B-IN)
• Parallel and Distributed Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Graphics and Image Processing (programme FI, B-IN)
• Computer Graphics (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Networks and Communication (programme FI, B-IN)
• Computer Networks and Communication (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Systems and Technologies (eng.) (programme FI, D-IN4)
• Computer Systems and Technologies (programme FI, D-IN4)
• Computer Systems and Data Processing (programme FI, B-IN)
• Computer Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Embedded Systems (eng.) (programme FI, N-IN)
• Programmable Technical Structures (programme FI, B-IN)
• Embedded Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Service Science, Management and Engineering (eng.) (programme FI, N-AP)
• Service Science, Management and Engineering (programme FI, N-AP)
• Social Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
• Theoretical Informatics (programme FI, N-IN)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, N-SS) (2)
• Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (programme FI, B-IN)
• Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (programme FI, N-IN)
• Image Processing (programme FI, N-AP)

Course objectives

The aim of the subject is (a) to introduce the students interested in the specialization towards the analysis of natural language into the methodology of the analysis of language as a sign system, (b) to explain the basic linguistic terminology, and thus (c) to make the special linguistic literature accessible for them.

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

Teaching methods

Lectures; exercises and discussions, written tests, occasionally homeworks.

Assessment methods

In case of excessive absence (more than 50% of scheduled class meetings) a special homework will be required. Final written test (100 minutes) during the examination period.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

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