OJX540 Prefixes and prepositions

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 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 13:20–14:55 A46
Prerequisites
Knowledge of English.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 8 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/8, only registered: 0/8, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/8
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
  • Ramchand, Gillian Catriona (1997): Aspect and Predication. The Semantics of Argument Structure. Clarendon Press: Oxford.
  • Filip, Hana. 2003. Prefixes and the delimitation of events. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 11.1, 55–101.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Gehrke, Berit. 2005. The prepositional aspect of Slavic prefixes and the goal-source asymmetry. Ms., Universiteit Utrecht.
  • Ramchand, Gillian Catriona (2007): Verb Meaning and Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax. Ms. Tromsø, lingBuzz/000346.
  • Zwarts, Joost (2005): Prepositional Aspect and the Algebra of Paths. Linguistics and Philosophy 28.6, 739-779.
Assessment methods
active work in seminar, final semestral paper
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2010, Spring 2011.
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