FF:CJBB166 Time and Space in Language - Course Information
CJBB166 Time and Space in Language
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2018
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jaroslava Vybíralová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Mon 10:50–12:25 T209
- Prerequisites
- Prior knowledge of linguistic terminology and basic syntax is desirable.
- 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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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- Course objectives
- My goal is to investigate the grammar of temporal and spatial expressions. The prominent means of encoding such meanings in Czech are prepositons. Hence, we devote a lot of attention to the grammar of prepositional phrases.
- Syllabus
- 1. Figure/Ground 2. spatial adpositions and their classes 3. measure phrases 4. temporal prepositions 5. measure phrases as prepositional cpmplements 6. adverbs 7. P-drop
- Literature
- recommended literature
- Cinque, Guglielmo. Mapping Spatial PPs. Oxford: OUP.
- Levinson. Language, space and cognition.
- Talmy, Leonard. 2000. Towards cognitive semantics. Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Teaching methods
- Lecture and short student presentations
- Assessment methods
- The requirement is tocome to classes plus something. That something can bge either a short presentation, or a 5 page term paper.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2018, recent)
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