FF:CJA055 Grammar and Lexicon, Pt. - Course Information
CJA055 Grammar and Lexicon, Pt.
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Petr Karlík, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Petr Karlík, CSc.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Silvie Hulewicz, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Thu 16:00–17:40 D31, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.
- Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of morphology and syntax theory.
- 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 80 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 9/80, only registered: 0/80, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/80 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 9 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- An "obligatory part" of modern language theories is the axiom that two of its modules are vocabulary/lexicon and grammar/syntax and that those two modules must be compatible. Language theories then, to put it in a simplified way, differ in how much and what kind of information (necessary for building the syntactic structure of grammatically correct phrases of various complexity) is put into the lexicon and how much into the syntax, respectively. The lecture will from this viewpoint analyze influential approaches rooted in European structuralism (Kuryłowicz, Mathesius, Skalička vs. Dokulil) and in formal grammars, especially Chomsky’s Principles and Paramatres Theory.
- Learning outcomes
- The student gets information about the architecture of natural language within modern syntactic theories;
- he/she will be able to understand the division of labor between lexicon and syntax;
- he/she will able to understand the difference between lexical categories, semi-lexical categories, functional categories and hybrid categories;
- he/she will be able to analyse these categories in Czech. - Syllabus
- 1. Analysis of language architecture in Standard Theory, in Government and Binding Theory and in Minimalist Program.
- 2. Analysis of organization of lexicon in those models.
- 3. Analysis of lexical and functional categories.
- 4. Analysis of grammaticalization.
- 5. Analysis of models without modularity (functional structuralism).
- Literature
- recommended literature
- KARLÍK, Petr. Gramatika a lexikon češtiny. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, 118 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6845-2. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
- not specified
- CHOMSKY, N. (1970): Remarks on nominalization. In: Jacobs, R. - Rosenbaum, P. (eds.), Reedings in English transformational grammar, Waltham, Mass.: Ginn & Co. 1970, s. 184-221.
- Di SCIULLO, A. - WILLIAMS, E. (1987): On the Definition of Word. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press.
- KURYŁOWICZ, J. (1936): Dérivation lexicale et dérivation syntaxique. Bulletin de la Société linguistique de Paris 37, s. 79-92; česky: Machová, S. ad. (1974): Principy strukturní syntaxe I. Praha: SPN, s. 87-94.
- Další materiály viz uvedené základní zdroje a ostatní podklady poskytnuté vyučujícím. / Other relevant materials are listed in the main given sources and are also available from the teacher.
- EMONDS, J. E. (2004): Organizace lexikonu. In: Hladká, Z. - Karlík, P. (eds.): Čeština-univerzália a specifika 5. Praha: Nakl. Lidové noviny
- Kapitoly z dějin české jazykovědné bohemistiky. Edited by Jana Pleskalová - Marie Krčmová - Radoslav Večerka - Petr Karlík. Vydání první. Praha: Academia, 2007, 683 stran. ISBN 9788020015235. info
- Encyklopedický slovník češtiny. Edited by Petr Karlík - Marek Nekula - Jana Pleskalová. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2002, 604 s. ISBN 80-7106-484-X. info
- Teaching methods
- Lecture.
- Assessment methods
- The lecture ends by an oral exam.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Information about innovation of course.
- This course has been innovated under the project "Faculty of Arts as Centre of Excellence in Education: Complex Innovation of Study Programmes and Fields at FF MU with Regard to the Requirements of the Knowledge Economy“ – Reg. No. CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0228, which is cofinanced by the European Social Fond and the national budget of the Czech Republic.
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