OJ540 Prefixes and prepositions

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
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
Mon 14:10–15:45 K22
Prerequisites
Knowledge of English.
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: 0/20, only registered: 0/20
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Course objectives
At the end of the course studnets should be able to understand to the formal structure of Slavic prepositions and prefixes (P&P) and to use their knowledges during the analysis of language data.
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 (2005): Prepositional Aspect and the Algebra of Paths. Linguistics and Philosophy 28.6, 739-779.
  • Ramchand, Gillian Catriona (2007): Verb Meaning and Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax. Ms. Tromsø, lingBuzz/000346.
  • 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.
  • Filip, Hana. 2003. Prefixes and the delimitation of events. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 11.1, 55–101.
Teaching methods
lectures, class discussion
Assessment methods
closing test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2012.
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