FF:OJ540 Prefixes and prepositions - Course Information

OJ540 Prefixes and prepositions

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Markéta Ziková, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. RNDr. Tomáš Hoskovec, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Lucie Čelková

Timetable

Thu 11:40–13:15 C32

Prerequisites

Knowledge of English.

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 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
• Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
• Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, M-FI) (2)
• Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, M-HS)
• Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
• Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
• Czech Language (programme FF, D-FI)
• Czech Language for Foreigners (programme FF, B-FI)
• General Linguistics (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
• General Linguistics (programme FF, B-HS)
• General Linguistics (programme FF, D-FI)
• General Linguistics (programme FF, M-FI)
• General Linguistics (programme FF, M-HS)
• General Linguistics (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
• General Linguistics (programme FF, N-HS)
• Indo-European Comparative Linguistics (programme FF, D-FI)

Course objectives

Linguistic description of Slavic prefixes and prepositions (P&P) allows us to show tools of modern formal linguistics. P&P interact with the event structure (číst-přečíst), transitivity (spát *přednášku, pro-spat přednášku), vowel lengthening (vy-kopat X vý-kop), vowel-zero alternations (odejít X odtlačit). We will describe these facts in a formal manner. Our approach is based on the generative tradition, but also consider current trends in formal phonology and semantics.

Syllabus

• Phonological structure of prepositions and prefixes. Allomorphy of prefixes vs. allomorphy of prepositions: vowel-zero alternations (od mámy, ode mně, odtlačit, odetnout), alternations of length (napsat, nápis). Interaction between phonology and morphology: infinitive as a templatic domain including (prát and proprat) or excluding prefixes (hrát and prohrát). Syntax and semantics of prefixed verbs: aspect as a composition of syntactic constituents on the VP level. Semantics: vector space semantics (the most promising current formal semantics conception describing location and movement). Slavic aspect as one of arguments for multi-dominance theories.

Literature

• Gehrke, Berit. 2005. The prepositional aspect of Slavic prefixes and the goal-source asymmetry. Ms., Universiteit Utrecht.
• Ramchand, Gillian Catriona (1997): Aspect and Predication. The Semantics of Argument Structure. Clarendon Press: Oxford.
• Zwarts, Joost and Winter, Yoad (2000): Vector space semantics: a model-theoretic analysis of locative prepositions. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 9:169–211.
• Zwarts, Joost (2005): Prepositional Aspect and the Algebra of Paths. Linguistics and Philosophy 28.6, 739-779.
• Scheer, Tobias. 2004. O samohláskové délce při derivaci v češtině. In Čeština – univerzália a specifika 5, Z. Hladká & P. Karlík (ed.), 224–239. Praha: NLN.
• Ramchand, Gillian Catriona (2007): Verb Meaning and Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax. Ms. Tromsø, lingBuzz/000346.
• Filip, Hana. 2003. Prefixes and the delimitation of events. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 11.1, 55–101.

Assessment methods

active work in seminar, final semestral paper

Language of instruction

Czech

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