FF:PLIN003 A Comprehensive Exam in Czech - Course Information

PLIN003 A Comprehensive Examination in Czech

Extent and Intensity

0/0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: SZK (final examination).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Michaela Boháčová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Zdeňka Hladká, Dr. (lecturer)
prof. Mgr. Pavel Kosek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Michal Křístek, M.Phil., Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Klára Osolsobě, Dr. (lecturer)
PhDr. Jarmila Vojtová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Markéta Ziková, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. Zdeňka Hladká, Dr.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jaroslava Vybíralová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts

Prerequisites

All credits and exams required for the BA study programme.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Czech Language with Orientation on Computational Linguistics (programme FF, B-FI)

Course objectives

The aim of the linguistic part of the B.A. state exam is to check good knowledge of present day Czech at all levels, as dealt with in the particular linguistic disciplines (phonetics, phonology, morphology, word formation, syntax, lexicology, stylistics). Other expected skills are knowledge in the particular terminology, orientation in linguistic methodology and practical knowledge of Standard Czech codification; knowledge of elementary facts about the development of Czech are also required. The main aim of the section focused on computational linguistics is to check the knowledge from the fields of informatics science, mathematics, statistics, logic and orientation in computer-based natural language processing.

Syllabus

• Topics relating to Czech language: 1. Czech phonetics and phonology; phonetics, its contents and aims; phonological aspect of investigating communication processes; vocals and consonants and their allophones; sound segmentation of utterances; orthoepy, orthophony 2. morphology and word formation; parts of speech – their character and classification; verbal and nominal grammatical categories; main tendencies in Modern Czech declension and conjugation; semantic and formal changes during the process of word formation; categories and types in word formation; present day tendencies in word formation, morphematics 3. syntax: valence; sentence elements, expressional and functional characterization of sentence proposition hierarchization; syntactic relationships, ways and means of their realizations; classification of complex and compound sentences; functional sentence perspective; negation; nominal group 4. lexicology: delimitation of lexical units; naming processes in Czech; semasiology and onomasiology; lexical meaning; semantic relationships among lexical units (synonymy, oppositeness, hyperonymy hyponymy, polysemy); vocabulary, its layers, changes and development; present day Czech lexicography, typology of dictionaries 5. stylistics: classification of styles – various ways and criteria, functional styles, stylistic factors, elementary stylistic techniques, stylistic characterization of means of expression. 6. history of Czech from the Proto Slavonic period; Slavonic languages – a survey; Proto Slavonic, its temporal and territorial delimitation; dialectal splitting of Proto Slavonic; Old Church Slavonic; Old Czech phonology and morphology; analysis of elementary Old Czech texts 7. general theoretical topics: linguistics and its stratification, theory of signs; model of communication; basic language functions; classification of languages; language community; usage, norm, codification; structural and non-structural varieties of Czech; a survey of Czech dialects 8. significant personalities in the development of Czech linguistics 9. relevant scholarly sources (including significant periodicals) Topics relating to computational linguistics: 1. Sets and relations, elementary combinatorics, arrangements. 2. Predicate logic, first order predicate logic 3. Prolog, elements of Prologu programming. 4. Regular languages. 5. Final automates. 6. Non-contextual languages. 7. Container automates, syntactic analysis. 8. Algorithm-based description of the individual language levels (morphology, syntax, semantic, pragmatics); knowledge representation; inference. 9. Corpus linguistics, history, definition of corpuses, corpus based research, types of corpuses; Czech National Corpus project and other types of available Czech corpuses (also on the background of corpuses based on other languages). 10. Interpretation of corpus data, inner and outer annotations, morphological tagging and disambiguation, corpus tools.

Literature

• Okruhy počítačové lingvistiky; viz literaturu k příslušným dílčím disciplínám.
• Jazykovědné okruhy; viz literaturu k příslušným dílčím disciplínám.
• The Oxford handbook of computational linguistics. Edited by Ruslan Mitkov. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, xx, 784. ISBN 0198238827. info
• KARLÍK, Petr, Jana PLESKALOVÁ and Marek NEKULA. Encyklopedický slovník češtiny (Encyclopaedia of the Czech language). Praha: LN, 2002, 10 pp. Nakladatelství Lidové noviny. ISBN 80-7106-484-X. info
• PALA, Karel. Počítačové zpracování přirozeného jazyka (Natural Language Processing). 1st ed. Brno: FI MU, 2000, 190 pp. info
• KARLÍK, Petr. Příruční mluvnice češtiny (A Reference Grammar of the Czech Language). In Příruční mluvnice češtiny. 1st ed. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 1995, p. 369-546. ISBN 80-7106-134-4. info

Teaching methods

The exam has an oral form, students reply to questions from spheres of Czech studies (from the linguistic point of view) and computational linguistics.

Assessment methods

The board of examiners has three members. Result of the exam is one mark for both sections.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course is taught each semester.

Teacher's information

http://www.pocitacova-lingvistika.cz

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