AJPV_SYNB Syntax B

Faculty of Education
Spring 2008
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Petra Hoydenová
Timetable
Mon 9:45–10:30 učebna 57
Prerequisites
This course can be attended by all students who have completed Syntax A.
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
The main goal of the course is to give students an overall survey of English syntax with an emphasis on the differences between the English language and the students morther tongue.
Syllabus
  • Program: Subject: Syntax B Teacher: Renata Povolná Spring term: A Student's Grammar of the English Language (Greenbaum & Quirk) Some key terms from the individual topics that will be discussed in the lectures: February: The simple sentence. Clause types. Verb classes. Clause elements and their semantic and syntactic characterization. Concord. Vocatives. Negation (focus and scope). March: Coordination. Syndetic, asyndetic, polysyndetic coordination. Coordinators. Correlatives. Simple and complex coordination. Appended c. Pseudo-coordination. Quasi-coordination. Complementation of verbs and adjectives. Multi-word verbs. Intransitive and transitive verbs. Prepositional, phrasal and phrasal-prepositional verbs. Copular verbs. Complex-transitive verbs. Adjective complementation. Sentence types and discourse functions. Four major syntactic types. Three major classes of questions. Minor types of questions. Directives. Exclamatives. April: Revision. The complex sentence. Subordinate and superordinate clauses. Subordination. Finite, nonfinite, and verbless clauses. Subordinators. Direct and indirect speech. Transferred negation. Pro-forms and ellipsis Recoverability. Coreference. Pro-forms. Types of ellipsis (situational, structural, textual). Appended clauses. May Semantic and syntactic functions of subordinate clauses Nominal clauses. Adverbial clauses (time, place, condition, concession, contrast, reason, exception, purpose, result, proportion, preference). Comment clauses. Sentential relative clauses. Comparative clauses. The semantics and grammar of adverbials Semantic roles, grammatical functions, formal realization and position of adverbials. Adjuncts, subjuncts, disjuncts (content and style) and conjuncts and their types.
Literature
  • CHALKER, Sylvia. A student's English grammar : workbook. First published. Harlow: Longman, 1992, 186 stran. ISBN 0582088194. info
  • QUIRK, Randolph and Sidney GREENBAUM. A Student s Grammar of the English Language. 1. vyd. London: Longman, 1990, 490 s. ISBN 0-582-07569-6. info
  • GREENBAUM, Sidney and Randolph QUIRK. A student's grammar of the English language. First published. Harlow: Longman, 1990, 490 stran. ISBN 0582059712. info
  • GREENBAUM, Sidney. Good English and the grammarian. London: Longman, 1988, xi, 152. ISBN 0582291488. info
  • QUIRK, Randolph. A Comprehensive grammar of the English language. Edited by David Crystal. London, New York: Longman, 1985, x, 1779 p. ISBN 0-582-51734-639. info
  • QUIRK, Randolph, Sidney GREENBAUM and R. A. CLOSE. A University grammar of English. London: Longman, 1974, 174 s. ISBN 0582522803. info
  • GREENBAUM, Sidney and Randolph QUIRK. A concise grammar of contemporary English. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973, xi, 484 s. ISBN 0-15-512930-9. info
  • QUIRK, Randolph and Sidney GREENBAUM. A university grammar of English. First published. Burnt Mill: Longman, 1973, xi, 484. ISBN 0582552079. info
  • QUIRK, Randolph and Sidney GREENBAUM. A university grammar of English. First published. Burnt Mill: Longman, 1973, xi, 484. ISBN 0582552079. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
At the end of the course students have to sit for an oral exam which comprises the subject matter from the whole year. They can find more information in Moodle course Syntax - přednáška.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017.
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