FF:UZIJA103 Italian Syntax - Course Information

UZIJA103 Italian Syntax

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Zuzana Šebelová, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. Petr Dytrt, Ph.D.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts

Prerequisites (in Czech)

IJIA026 Comprehensive Exam || IJIA028 Bachelors exam
Normativní gramatika I - III.

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

• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Italian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS3)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Italian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS) (2)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Italian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS3)

Course objectives

The main purpose of the course is to bring to the students a deeper theoretical understanding and practical mastery of the Italian syntax. The course is a continuation of the Normative Grammar of Italian, dedicated mainly to the Italian morphology. The course focuses above all on the chapters concerning the basic constituents of the sentence, the use of verbal tenses and modes etc. The studied phenomena are illustrated by original texts.

Syllabus

• Familiarization with the necessary terminology. Syntagm. Types of sentences: possible criteria for their classification. The constituents of a sentence. Complex and compound sentences. The types of subordinate clauses. The functional sentence perspective. The Italian word order compared to Czech. Specific features of the Italian syntax and the problems of translation.

Literature

• SERIANNI, Luca. Grammatica italiana. Italiano comune e lingua letteraria. Torino, 1989. info
• DARDANO, Maurizio and Pietro TRIFONE. La lingua italiana. Bologna, 1991. info
• BATTAGLIA, S. and V. PERNICONE. La grammatica italiana. Torino, 1957. info
• LEPSCHY, Laura and Giulio LEPSCHY. La lingua italiana. Storia, varieta dell'uso, grammatica. Milano, 1994. info
• Hamplová, Sylva. Mluvnice italštiny. Praha: Leda, 2004.
• HAMPLOVÁ, Sylva. Stručná mluvnice italštiny. 2. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1987, 373 s. info
• Wotkeová, Zuzana. Elementi di morfosintassi italiana. Brno: CERM, 2005.

Assessment methods

Written test.

Language of instruction

Italian

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
General note: Lze zapsat až po úspěšném složení souborné nebo bakalářské zkoušky.

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