Vj4 Vietnamese grammar and syntax

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Ondřej Pazdírek (lecturer)
Mgr. Michal Schwarz, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Michal Schwarz, Ph.D.
Department of Mongolian, Korean and Vietnamese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Michal Schwarz, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Mongolian, Korean and Vietnamese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
previous study of Vu1 Linguistical terminology for Vietnamese Studies
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
The course follows lectures and tutorials dedicated to phonetics, phonology and lexicology. The main goals of this course are explanations, analyses and practical exercises of higher structural units. The first part of this course is dedicated to nouns and noun phrases, compound words, types of relations among words, sentence structure and grammatical and syntactical categories. The second part focuses on clauses, their types and their hierarchical relations in sentences. The course Vietnamese grammar and syntax is a fundamental theoretical profile core course of the study programme Vietnamese Studies. The topic, terminology and practical analyses of this course are practiced at the parallel course of Vietnamese conversation and belong to the compulsory subjects of the Final State Examination (also its example is learned at the end of this course).
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course a student:
- knows the theory of Vietnamese grammar and basic syntax
- knows and is able to use basic Vietnamese terminology of grammar and syntax
- is able to describe and on practical examples analyse the structure of noun phrases and sentences of Vietnamese language
Syllabus
  • 1. Concept of word in Vietnamese, Chinese and Indo-European languages
  • 2. Development of words and word formation in Vietnamese and other languages
  • 3. Structure of words: their types, types of compounding and semantic motivation
  • 4. Types of words as sentence units
  • 5. Basic grammatical categories and their realisation in Vietnamese
  • 6. Syntactical units in Vietnamese
  • 7. Basic structure of Vietnamese sentence
  • 8. Types of Vietnamese sentences
  • 9. Types of relations among sentences in Vietnamese
  • 10. Analyses of examples and exercises (= continuously)
  • 11. Summary and repeating of Vietnamese terminology related to the grammar and syntax (= continuously)
  • 12. Preparatory exercise for Final State Examination
Literature
    required literature
  • EMENEAU, M. B. 1951. Studies in Vietnamese (Annamese) Grammar. Berkeley – Los Angeles: University of California Press.
  • Trương Văn Chình. 1970. Structure de la langue vietnamienne. Paris: Imprimerie nationale – Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner.
    recommended literature
  • Nguyễn Hữu Quỳnh. 2001. Ngữ pháp tiếng Việt. Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển bách khoa.
  • THOMPSON, L. C. 1965. A Vietnamese Grammar. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
  • CADIÈRE, L. 1958. Syntaxe de la langue viêtnamienne. Paris: École Française d᾽Extrême-Orient.
    not specified
  • Cao Xuân Hạo. 2017. Tiếng Việt sơ thảo ngữ pháp chức nănh. Tái bản lần 1. Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội.
  • ÐOÀN, Thiện Thuật et al. (eds.). 2012. A Concise Vietnamese Grammar for non-native speakers. (Vietnam National University, Hanoi – Institute of Vietnamese Studies and Development Sciences). Hanoi: The Giới Publishers.
  • NGUYỄN, Chí Hoà. 2006. Ngữ pháp tiếng Việt thực hành. A Practical Grammar of Vietnamese. Hà nội: Nhà xuất bản đại học quốc gia Hà nội.
  • Nguyễn Tài Cẩn. 1998. Ngữ pháp tiếng Việt (tiếng - từ ghép - đoản ngữ). (In lần thứ tư). Dùng chi sinh viên, nghiên cứu sinh và bồ dưỡng giáo viên ngữ văn. Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản Đại học quốc gia Hà Nội.
Teaching methods
Lectures and exercises.
Assessment methods
Written brief tests at the beginning of every lecture - 50 % of correct answers from all brief tests (including tests from missed classes) is needed to pass for final written examination. Then at least 80 % of correct answers from final written examination is needed to pass the course. Note: also at least 75 % of correct answers from all brief tests is enough (= with no required level of results from final written examination) to pass the course.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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