OJ102 Introduction to syntax

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Veronika Gadulová (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Tomáš Hoskovec, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Fri 10:50–12:25 zruseno C21
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
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to understand principles which govern composition of sentences from words. These informations allow him to work with structures hidden behind linearity of expressions of natural language and allow him to actively use theoretical tools, which modern formal linguistics offer, to analyse syntactic structures of natural language sentences.
Syllabus
  • Introduction to technics and goals of syntactic analysis of natural language; grammaticality and ungrammaticality, dependency and generative grammar, morphosyntactic features, lexicon and grammar, syntactic structure of sentences.
Literature
  • ŠMILAUER, Vladimír. Novočeská skladba. Vyd. 2., v SPN 1. V Praze: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1966, 573 s. URL info
  • FROMKIN, Victoria and Robert RODMAN. An introduction to language [Fromkin, 1998]. 6th ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1998, xvii, 566. ISBN 0-03-018682-X. info
  • HAEGEMAN, Liliane. Introduction to Government and Binding Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993, 618 s. ISBN 0-631-16563-0. info
  • HAEGEMAN, Liliane M. V. and Jacqueline GUÉRON. English grammar :a generative perspective. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, xiii, 672. ISBN 0-631-18839-8. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
written test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1999, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022.
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