OJ513 Passive voice in Czech

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Petr Karlík, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Petr Karlík, CSc.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jaroslava Vybíralová
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
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Course objectives
The aim of the seminar is to get the students acquainted with standard theoretical approaches to the passive voice within the frames of both functional and formal grammar, especially generative grammar. As this course is focused on Czech Studies students, the aim is also to provide an explanation of aspect in passive participle and its longer or shorter forms.
Syllabus
  • Lexicalistic and transformational concepts of the passive voice are being contrasted, taking into consideration predictability of creating the passive voice. Relevant factors (both syntactic and semantic) appear here and a theoretical explanation of auxiliaries selection in the passive voice is provided.
Literature
  • Chrakovskij, V. S. (ed.) (1974): Tipologija passivnych konstrukcij
  • Keenan, E. L. (1985): Passive in the world s languages. In: T. Shopen
  • Veselovská, L. & Karlík, P. (2004):Analytic Passives in Czech.
  • Bresnan, J. (1982): Passive in lexical theory. In: J. Bresnan (ed.), The
  • Abraham, W. (ed.) 2006): Passivization and typology: form and function. Amsterdam ad.: Benjamins, 2006.
  • Haspelmath, M. (1990): The Grammatikalization of Passive Morphology.
  • KARLÍK, Petr. Pasivum v češtině (Passive forms in Czech). Slovo a slovesnost. Praha: Akademie věd ČR, ÚJČ, 2004, vol. 65, No 1, p. 82-113. ISSN 0037-7031. info
Assessment methods
credit
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught every week.
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