OJX102 Introduction to syntax

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Tomáš Hoskovec, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 10:00–11:35 zruseno D51
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 10 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/10, only registered: 0/10, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/10
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 Spring 2009, Spring 2011.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2010, recent)
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