CJp036 Chapters in Czech Language Syntax 1

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Ivana Kolářová, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Ivana Kolářová, CSc.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Petra Rozbořilová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
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
Course objectives
1. The students acquire a basic competence in the syntax of contemporary Czech language.
2. During the early lectures are explained the communicative function of the sentence, the expressing of the attitudes of the speakers and the modality of the sentence.
3. The students are able to explain the differences of the conception of the sentential structure in the analytical syntax, valence syntax or in other syntactical theories.
4. The students are able to explain the parallelism between the structure of the sentence and the structure of the complex sentence.
5. The students are able to explain the structure of the compound sentence and the difference between the complex and compound sentence.
6. The students are able to analyse the structure of various types of the complicated compound/complex sentence.
Learning outcomes
It is presupposed students after finishing the course:
(a) know the terminology of syntax;
(b) are able to use knowledge of terminology by analysis of sentence and compound or complex sentence;
(c) are able to explain the differences between the conception of the "analytical" and valence syntax;
(d) are able to explain the structure of various types of the complex or compound sentence;
(e) know some syntactic theories and famous Czech Czech specialists of syntax (V. Šmilauer, F. Trávníček, F. Kopečný, K. Svoboda, J. Hrbáček, P. Hauser, M. Grepl, P. Karlík and so on).
Syllabus
  • 1. The sentence, compound and complex sentence. Difference among sentence, compound and complex sentence. The sentence as grammatical unit and as a communicative unit. Communicative function of the sentence, proposition of the sentence.
  • 2. Modality of the attitude of the speaker. Language means of the modality: lexical (particles, interjection), grammatical (verbal mood), intonation.The voluntary modality of the sentence (eventuality, necessity, intention). The modality of the sureness.
  • 3. Sentence, compound or complex sentence. Sentential constituents. Syntactical function of the word classes. Syntactical structure of the sentence. Syntactical relations (coordination, subordination, apposition, predication).
  • 4. Subject and predicate. Subjective and predicative subordinate clause.
  • 5. Subordinated sentential constituents. Object, attribute, verbal attribute. Objective and attributive subordinate clause.
  • 6. Subordinated sentential constituents. Adverbial. Adverbial subordinate clause.
  • 7. Coordinate relationship between main clauses and between subordinated clauses.
  • 8. Valence of the predicative verb, the grammatical structure of the sentence, the classification of the valence-structure of the sentence. Terminology of the valence syntax.
  • 9. Semantic elements of the structure of the sentence.
  • 10. The sentences with subject and without subject. Sentencial equivalents.
  • 11. Word order, theme and topic of the sentence. Sentential construction without predicative verbs.
  • 12.Some well-known persons of the Czech linguistics and syntax (V. Šmilauer, F. Trávníček, F. Kopečný, K. Svoboda, J. Hrbáček, P. Hauser, M. Grepl, P. Karlík and so on).
Literature
  • ŠTÍCHA, František a kol. Akademická gramatika spisovné češtiny. 1st ed. Praha: Academia, 2013, 974 pp. ISBN 978-80-200-2205-9. info
  • HIRSCHOVÁ, Milada. Sentence adverbials and evidentiality. Research in Language. De Gruyter Open, 2013, vol. 2013, No 1, p. 1-8. ISSN 1731-7533. info
  • ČECHOVÁ, Marie, Miloš DOKULIL, Zdeněk HLAVSA, Josef HRBÁČEK and Zdeňka HRUŠKOVÁ. Čeština - řeč a jazyk. 3., rozšířené a upraven. Praha: SPN - pedagogické nakladatelství, a. s., 2011, 442 stran. ISBN 9788072354139. info
  • KOLÁŘOVÁ, Ivana and Jana HOFFMANNOVÁ. Kombinatorika temporálních konektorů (Combinatory analysis of temporal connectors). In Kapitoly z české gramatiky. 1st ed. Praha: Academia, 2011, p. 1081-1120. Lingvistika. ISBN 978-80-200-1845-8. info
  • KARLÍK, Petr and František ŠTÍCHA. Některé jevy nominalizace (Some issues of nominalization). In Štícha, František. Kapitoly z české gramatiky. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2011, p. 923-944. Lingvistika. ISBN 978-80-200-1845-8. info
  • GREPL, Miroslav and Petr KARLÍK. Skladba češtiny (Czech Syntax). 1st ed. Olomouc: Votobia, 1998, 503 pp. ISBN 80-7198-281-4. info
  • Příruční mluvnice češtiny. Edited by Miroslav Grepl - Petr Karlík - Marek Nekula - Zdenka Rusínová. Vyd. 2., opr. Praha: Lidové noviny, 1996, 799 s. ISBN 8071061344. info
  • Mluvnice češtiny. 3, Skladba. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1987, 746 s. info
  • SEARLE, John R. Expression and meaning : studies in the theory of speech acts. 1st pbk. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985, xiv, 187. ISBN 0521313937. info
Teaching methods
- Lecture with graphical presentation;
- Discussion on some linguistics problems+
- Study hours.
Assessment methods
Credit requirement: Student shall get knowledge and ability included in the syllabus; he/she can get them visiting the lectures and studying the syntactical literature. Then student have to hand in written work - reflexion of one subject of the lecture (4 pages of text).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Předmět bude realizován při minimálním počtu 10 zapsaných studentů.
Teacher's information
The students that are going to study abroad are allowed to hand in the written work after coming back from abroad, too. It is recommended to contact the teacher before leaving Czech Republic.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022.
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