FF:LgBA02 Introduction to syntax - Course Information
LgBA02 Introduction to syntax
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Žaneta Šulíková (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Tue 16:00–17:40 D21, except Tue 16. 4.
- 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
- there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The course offers to students the basic introduction to syntax of natural language.
- Learning outcomes
- Student will be able to:
- understand syntactic structure of natural language sentences;
- systematically search for rules assembling sentences from words;
- understand some general formal constraints of natural language. - 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
- required literature
- Hayes, Bruce, Susan Curtiss, Anna Szabolcsi, Tim Stowell, Edward Stabler, Dominique Sportiche, Hilda Koopman et al. Linguistics: An introduction to linguistic theory. John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
- recommended 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 M. V. Thinking syntactically : a guide to argumentation and analysis. first published. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2006, xii, 386. ISBN 9781405118538. info
- HAEGEMAN, Liliane M. V. and Jacqueline GUÉRON. English grammar : a generative perspective. 1st pub. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, xiii, 672. ISBN 063118838X. info
- HAEGEMAN, Liliane. Introduction to Government and Binding Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993, 618 s. ISBN 0-631-16563-0. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures
- Assessment methods
- Written examination consisting of 6 questions focusing on the basic notions of the discipline.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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