A2BP_SYNA1 Syntax A

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2006
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Petra Hoydenová
Prerequisites
This course can be attended by all students who have completed Syntax A or who are attending the course Seminář k syntaxi A.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main goal of the course is to give students an overall survey of English syntax with an emphasis on the differences between the English language and the students morther tongue.
Syllabus
  • Some key terms from the individual topics that will be discussed in the lectures: 1.- 2. The simple sentence. Clause types. Verb classes. Clause elements and their semantic and syntactic characterization. Concord. Vocatives. Negation (focus and scope). 3.- 4. Complementation of verbs and adjectives. Multi-word verbs. Intransitive and transitive verbs. Prepositional, phrasal and phrasal-prepositional verbs. Copular verbs. Complex-transitive 5.- 6. Sentence types and discourse functions. Four major syntactic types. Three major classes of questions. Minor types of questions. Directives. Exclamatives. 7. - 8. Coordination. Syndetic, asyndetic, polysyndetic coordination. Coordinators. Correlatives. Simple and complex coordination. 9. - 10. Subordination. The complex sentence. Subordinate and superordinate clauses. Finite, nonfinite, and verbless clauses. Subordinators. Transferred negation. 11. - 12. Substitution and ellipsis. Recoverability. Coreference. Pro-forms. Types of ellipsis (situational, structural, textual). Appended clauses. 13. - 14. The semantics and grammar of adverbials. Semantic roles, grammatical functions, formal realization and position of adverbials. Adjuncts, subjuncts, disjuncts (content and style) and conjuncts and their types.
Literature
  • CHALKER, Sylvia. A student's English grammar : workbook. First published. Harlow: Longman, 1992, 186 stran. ISBN 0582088194. info
  • GREENBAUM, Sidney and Randolph QUIRK. A student's grammar of the English language. First published. Harlow: Longman, 1990, 490 stran. ISBN 0582059712. info
  • QUIRK, Randolph. A Comprehensive grammar of the English language. Edited by David Crystal. London, New York: Longman, 1985, x, 1779 p. ISBN 0-582-51734-639. info
  • QUIRK, Randolph and Sidney GREENBAUM. A Student s Grammar of the English Language. 1. vyd. London: Longman, 1990, 490 s. ISBN 0-582-07569-6. info
  • GREENBAUM, Sidney. Good English and the grammarian. London: Longman, 1988, xi, 152. ISBN 0582291488. info
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: konzultace.
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