PdF:NJ_G220 Morphol.: Inflectional Classes - Course Information

NJ_G220 Morphology: Inflectional Classes

Extent and Intensity

0/1/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 1 for the colloquium). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Roland Anton Wagner, M.A., Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Tomáš Káňa, Ph.D.
Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Helena Rytířová
Supplier department: Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education

Timetable of Seminar Groups

NJ_G220/Kombi01: Fri 23. 2. 15:45–17:25 učebna 63, Fri 23. 3. 15:45–17:25 učebna 63, Fri 27. 4. 15:45–17:25 učebna 63, R. Wagner
NJ_G220/Prez01: each odd Thursday 16:40–18:20 učebna 55, R. Wagner

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

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Course objectives

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the nominal and verbal inflectional classes of German as they are delimited in recent work on German morphology. At the end of the course students should be able
- to name the commonly assumed inflectional classes of German verbs and nouns,
- to compare different suggestions in the literature how to delimit the German inflectional classes,
- to evaluate theses suggestion with respect to their linguistic merit and their value for teaching German as a foreign language,
- to enumerate some important verbs and nouns which in the course of the historical development of German changed their class affiliation and to explain the reasons for these changes.

Syllabus

• - Definition of the concept “inflectional class”; morphological and extramorphological motivation of inflectional classes;
• - The traditional inflectional classes of German nouns according to J. Grimm;
• - Criticism of the traditional classification;
• - Helbig & Buscha’s suggestion for the teaching of German as a foreign language;
• - More detailed classifications in the contemporary linguistic literature; the possibility of combining classes into macroclasses by referring to extra-morphological properties;
• - Remotivation of inflectional classes as trigger for class changes of certain lexemes;
• - The rise of transitional classes as a result of uncompleted class changes;
• - Inflectional classes of German verbs;
• - Morphological naturalness and the change of inflectional class: Evidence from German verbal inflection;
• - Are there inflectional classes with German adjectives?

Literature

• Bittner, Andreas (1996):Starke „schwache“ Verben – schwache „starke“ Verben: Deutsche Verbflexion und Natürlichkeit. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
• Carstairs, Andrew (1987): Allomorphy in inflexion. London: Croom Helm.
• EISENBERG, Peter. Grundriß der deutschen Grammatik. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1999, 551 s. ISBN 3-476-01642-0. info
• HELBIG, Gerhard and Joachim BUSCHA. Deutsche Grammatik : ein Handbuch für den Ausländerunterricht. Berlin: Langenscheidt, 2001, 654 s. ISBN 9783468494932. info
• Nübling, Damaris (2008): Was tun mit Flexionsklassen? Deklinationsklassen und ihr Wandel im Deutschen und seinen Dialekten, in: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, 75, 2008 (3), 282-330.

Teaching methods

The work in class is based on compulsory reading of selected linguistic texts (written summaries may be required during the term), analysis of German language material (partly to be done at home) and the comparison of different grammars and text books of German in oral (short presentations) and written (homework) form.

Assessment methods

The course can be completed either by a “credit“ or by a “colloquium” (cf. Study and Examination Rules, section 18 and 19). In order to acquire a “credit”, students have to hand in the compulsory homework and to regularly attend class (no more than three absences). In order to acquire the “colloquium”, students in addition have to hand in a seminar paper comparing different systems of inflectional classes used in grammars or text books.

Language of instruction

German

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Kombinované studium má výuku v pátek, prezenční od pondělí do čtvrtka..
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6 hodin v kombinované formě.

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