NJK1821 Dependency syntax

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Jaromír Zeman, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jaromír Zeman, CSc.
Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
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
Course objectives
The dependecy grammar describes the relations in the sentence as a set of elements most of which are dependent on the verb. The verb takes thus the central position in the structural hierarchy of the sentence and provides - according to its meaning - the positions for other dependent elements (valency). The students should be able to recognize and describe the sentence structure using these methods.
Learning outcomes
Upon Completition of the course, the student will be able to: analyze the syntactic structure of the German sentence; to distinguish sentence elements and their functional relations; explain the role of valency in the syntax and the description of syntactic structures; to summarize important concepts in modern syntactic research; to utilise the knowledge of syntactic relations to an adequate comprehension of complex sentence constructions.
Syllabus
  • Lectures on dependency grammar: Main new syntactic theories and their influence on the description of the German language structure (L. Tesnière, J. Fourquet, G. Helbig, W. Flämig, U. Engel, H.-W. Eroms, Duden-Grammatik); valency as a method of sentence description; pragmatical aspects; sentence analysis.
Literature
    required literature
  • Duden 4 - Die Grammatik. Mannheim 2009.
    recommended literature
  • Grundlagen der Syntax. Jana Maroszová u. m. v. Marie Vachková. UK - Karolínum Praha 2009, ISBN 978-80-246-1659-9
  • Altmann Hans: Prüfungswissen Syntax: Arbeitstechniken - Klausurfragen - Lösungen. Göttingen 2010.
  • H. Glinz: Deutsche Syntax. Stuttgart 1967.
  • Eroms, Hans-Werner: Syntax der dt. Sprache, Berlin 2000.
  • Duden: Die Grammatik, Bd. 4, Mannheim 2005.
  • ENGEL, Ulrich. Syntax der deutschen Gegenwartssprache. 3., völlig neu bearb. Aufl. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1994, 316 s. ISBN 3-503-03094-8. info
  • HELBIG, Gerhard. Geschichte der neueren Sprachwissenschaft : unter dem besonderen Aspekt der Grammatik-Theorie. Leipzig: VEB Bibliographisches Institut, 1973. info
Teaching methods
lecture; presentation; in-class discussions; and individual work of students
Assessment methods
colloquium - a short oral exam (about 20 min.) concerning the matter dealt with in lectures and seminars. Text analysis concerning syntactic features.
Language of instruction
German
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 14 hodin za semestr.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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