NJII_1821A Dependency syntax

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Vlastimil Brom, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Iva Zündorf, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Iva Zündorf, Ph.D.
Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 14:00–15:40 L34, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
The course is focused on presenting the theoretical background, including the research traditions of the description of the syntactic structure of the language. Attention is paid to dependency grammar with the main focus on the grammatical description of German. Valence is presented as a means and method of describing grammatical structure. The seminars are devoted to the syntactic analysis of contemporary German texts.
Learning outcomes
Upon Completition of the course, the student will be able to: analyze the syntactic structure of the German sentence; to distinguish sentence elements and their functional relations; explain the role of valency in the syntax and the description of syntactic structures; to summarize important concepts in modern syntactic research; to utilise the knowledge of syntactic relations to an adequate comprehension of complex sentence constructions.
Syllabus
  • Syntax in the context of linguistic disciplines, an overview of research traditions and approaches;
  • syntagma, phrase, clauses, sentence;
  • concepts and methods of sentence description, dependence, valence;
  • sentences and infinitive sentence constructions;
  • coordination, subordination;
  • aspects of word order and its description.
Literature
    required literature
  • Zimmermann, Claudia: Systemstrukturen des Deutschen. Würzburg: JMU Würzburg 2015.
    recommended literature
  • Duden 4 - Die Grammatik. Mannheim 2009.
  • Grundlagen der Syntax. Jana Maroszová u. m. v. Marie Vachková. UK - Karolínum Praha 2009, ISBN 978-80-246-1659-9
  • Hentschel, Elke - Weydt, Harald: Handbuch der deutschen Grammatik, Berlin - New York 2003.
  • HELBIG, Gerhard. Geschichte der neueren Sprachwissenschaft : unter dem besonderen Aspekt der Grammatik-Theorie. Leipzig: VEB Bibliographisches Institut, 1973. info
    not specified
  • Altmann Hans: Prüfungswissen Syntax: Arbeitstechniken - Klausurfragen - Lösungen. Göttingen 2010.
  • H. Glinz: Deutsche Syntax. Stuttgart 1967.
  • Eroms, Hans-Werner: Syntax der dt. Sprache, Berlin 2000.
  • ZEMAN, Jaromír. Syntax der deutschen Sprache. Materialien zur Syntaxvorlesung (German Syntax. Materials for Lectures in Syntax). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, 90 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6828-5. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
  • ENGEL, Ulrich. Syntax der deutschen Gegenwartssprache. 3., völlig neu bearb. Aufl. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1994, 316 s. ISBN 3-503-03094-8. info
Teaching methods
lecture; presentation; in-class discussions; and individual work of students
Assessment methods
Written test - theoretical areas of syntax, practical syntactic analysis.
Language of instruction
German
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023.
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