FF:CJBB179 Czech Syntax - Course Information

CJBB179 Czech Syntax: a transition course

Extent and Intensity

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

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Petr Karlík, CSc.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jaroslava Vybíralová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts

Timetable

Thu 8:00–9:40 D51, Thu 10:00–11:40 D51

Prerequisites

Students are strongly recommended to attend simultaneously the lecture CJBB177 Introduction to Czech syntax. The seminar consists in analyzing Czech language data using the theory acquired at the lecture. If not attending the associated lecture, students are advised to read relevant chapters in the textbook Thinking Syntactically by Liliane Haegeman.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 1/20, only registered: 0/20

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Course objectives

The aims of the course are: 1) to get the students acquainted with recent theories about the structure of a sentence as the elementary unit of the language system/of a text, 2. to help them understand the possibilities of the system for creating correct Czech sentences, 3. to help them understand formal relations among sentence elements. At the end of the course the students should be able to understand and capture the basic aspects of syntactic structure by means of a syntactic parse tree. The seminar is orientated practically, i.e. the focus is on application of the particular knowledge into practice when working with an example sentence.

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student is able to:
- identify sentence constituents;
- correctly label various kinds of constituents and characterise their function;
- draw a phrase-structure tree for sentences and their parts;
- to understand, formulate and formally encode basic rules of syntax;
- analyse the structure of words using head movement;
- structurally depict the rules for question formation, relative clause formation and conditional clause formation;
- understand, describe and formally capture co-reference relations between antecedents and anaphoric elements.

Syllabus

• 1. Syntactic structure 2. Auxiliary sequences, negation, question formation, conditionals 3. How to tell a constituent (ellipsis, coordination, ...) 4. Constituents and their properties 5. Arguments 6. Adverbials 7. Binding 8. Raising to subject 9. Wh-movement 10. Locality (Islands) 11. Clitics 12. Syntax and Morphology

Literature

required literature
• HAEGEMAN, Liliane M. V. Thinking syntactically : a guide to argumentation and analysis. 1st pub. Malden: Blackwell, 2006, xii, 386. ISBN 1405118520. info

Teaching methods

The methods used include theoretical and practical skills, the theoretical ones being to read assigned scholarly materials, the practical ones to analyze concrete Czech sentences/texts.

Assessment methods

To complete the course successfully, it is necessary: 1) to participate actively and regularly in the seminars (to read assigned texts and to prepare for the seminars beforehand; the attendance is compulsory), 2) to succeed in a written exam (test). The test consists in drawing syntactic structures for Czech phrases.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Překlenovací seminář CJBB179 je vždy rozvrhově přičleněn k některé ze seminárních skupin CJA010.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Viz níže v oddílu Informace učitele

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