AJ0213 Syntax Seminar

Faculty of Education
Spring 2019
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. Mgr. Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable
Mon 10:00–10:50 učebna 56
Prerequisites
! AJPV_SYNB Syntax B
This course can be attended by all students who have completed Seminar to syntax A, or who need revision of their knowledge of syntax before their final bachelor exam.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
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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´ mother tongue.
Learning outcomes
The students: 1. understand the concepts from the study of English syntax; 2. know how to form and use correctly the simple, complex and compound sentence; 3. understand the differences between the structure of the English and Czech (Slovak) language and are aware of the differences in the ways of expression of various syntactic relations; 4. are able to form correctly different types of subordinate clauses and know the repertoire of their expressive means; 5. know how to analyse the written text in English and how to describe and explain the language means used to the learners of English while using adequate syntactic terms.
Syllabus
  • The lectures are based mainly on A Student's Grammar of the English Language (Greenbaum & Quirk) Some key terms from the individual topics that will be discussed in the lectures: 1. The simple sentence. Clause types. Verb classes. Clause elements and their semantic and syntactic characterization. Concord. Vocatives. Negation (focus and scope). 2. Coordination. Syndetic, asyndetic, polysyndetic coordination. Coordinators. Correlatives. 3. Simple and complex coordination. Appended c. Pseudo-coordination. Quasi-coordination. 4. Complementation of verbs and adjectives. Multi-word verbs. Intransitive and transitive verbs. Prepositional, phrasal and phrasal-prepositional verbs. Copular verbs. Complex-transitive verbs. Adjective complementation. 5. Sentence types and discourse functions. Four major syntactic types. Three major classes of questions. Minor types of questions. Directives. Exclamatives. 6. The complex sentence. Subordinate and superordinate clauses. Subordination. Finite, nonfinite, and verbless clauses. Subordinators. 7. Direct and indirect speech. Transferred negation. 8. Pro-forms and ellipsis. Recoverability. Coreference. Pro-forms. 9. Ellipsis. Types of ellipsis (situational, structural, textual). Appended clauses. 10. Semantic and syntactic functions of subordinate clauses Nominal clauses. 11. Adverbial clauses (time, place, condition, concession, contrast, reason, exception, purpose, result, proportion, preference). Comment clauses. Sentential relative clauses. Comparative clauses. 12. 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
    required literature
  • GETHIN, Hugh. Grammar in context :proficiency level English. New edition. Harlow: Longman, 1996, 235 s. ISBN 0-17-556420-5. info
  • CHALKER, Sylvia. A student's English grammar : workbook. First published. Harlow: Longman, 1992, 186 stran. ISBN 0582088194. 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
    recommended literature
  • DUŠKOVÁ, Libuše. Mluvnice současné angličtiny na pozadí češtiny. 3. vyd. Praha: Academia, 2003, 673 s. ISBN 8020010734. info
  • GREENBAUM, Sidney and Randolph QUIRK. A student's grammar of the English language. First published. Harlow: Longman, 1990, 490 stran. ISBN 0582059712. info
  • GREENBAUM, Sidney. Good English and the grammarian. London: Longman, 1988, xi, 152. ISBN 0582291488. 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, Sidney GREENBAUM and R. A. CLOSE. A University grammar of English. London: Longman, 1974, 174 s. ISBN 0582522803. info
  • GREENBAUM, Sidney and Randolph QUIRK. A concise grammar of contemporary English. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973, xi, 484 s. ISBN 0-15-512930-9. info
  • QUIRK, Randolph and Sidney GREENBAUM. A university grammar of English. First published. Burnt Mill: Longman, 1973, xi, 484. ISBN 0582552079. info
  • QUIRK, Randolph and Sidney GREENBAUM. A university grammar of English. First published. Burnt Mill: Longman, 1973, xi, 484. ISBN 0582552079. info
Teaching methods
Mode of teaching: lecture The methods used in classes are mainly presentations of new and/or problematic grammatical issues by the teacher, followed by class discussions and questions from students. As for written assignments, students are supposed to do all the tests which accompany the topics of the individual lectures and which are included in the is.muni.cz course Vybrané kapitoly ze syntaxe/Syntax B.
Assessment methods
At the end of the course students have to take two revision tests which are included in the is.muni.cz course Vybrané kapitoly ze syntaxe/Syntax B.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Předmět bude realizován, pokud se přihlásí alespoň 15 studentů.
Teacher's information
https://is.muni.cz/auth/ucitel/warp_predmet_vyber?fakulta=1441;obdobi=6085;predmet=773605
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2018, Spring 2020.
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