CJ3BP_JSy1 Contemporary Czech Syntax 1

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Ivana Kolářová, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Ivana Kolářová, CSc.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Nataša Vrbová
Timetable of Seminar Groups
CJ3BP_JSy1/01: Tue 11:35–13:15 učebna 10, I. Kolářová
CJ3BP_JSy1/02: Tue 15:15–16:55 učebna 6, I. Kolářová
Prerequisites
It is pressupposed the student has succesfully finished the subject CJ3BP_JMor (Morphology of the Contemporary Czech Language).
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The students acquire a basic competence in the syntax of contemporary Czech language in the syntactical terminology, in the methodology of the analysis of the syntactical units and elements of the sentence. During the early lessons the students recognize the expressing of the attitudes of the speakers and the modality of the sentence. Than they practice the interpretation of the meaning and function of the sentence and of various language units and phonetic means in the sentence. Than the students will make analysis of the structure of the sentence, recognize the elements of the sentence (subject, object, circumstance, attribute, verbal attribute), the syntactical relations between/among the elements of the sentence and make graphical depiction of the sentence structure. The students shall recognize syntactical structure based on the valence of the predicative verbs, semantic meaning of that syntactical structure, differ the surface and deep structure of the sentence.
It is pressupposed that students after finishing the course:
- know the terminology of the syntax and are able to explain the terminology of comtemporary theories of syntax dealing with the sentence and enuntiation;
- are able to explain differences between the analytic ("traditional") syntax of the syntax and valence syntax;
-are able to make complex analysis of the sentence in the term of the analytic or valence syntax;
- are able to explain relation between formal structure and semantics of the sentence;
- are able to explicate the language expressions of the communicative functions of the sentence/enuntiation depending up the communicative situation and context.
Syllabus
  • 1. The Sentence as a grammatical unit, sentence as a communicative unit. Communicative function of the sentence, proposition of the sentence. Modality of the sentence.
  • 2. Modality of the attitude of the speaker. Language meaning of the attitude of the speakers (particles, interjection; voice of the verbs; intonation) in the text.
  • 3. The voluntary modality of the sentence (eventuality, necessity, intention). The modality of the sureness. The language means of the modality.
  • 4. Interpretation of the lexical, grammatical and phonetic language means of the expression of the communicative function of the sentence. Communicative form of the sentence. Explicit performativ forms in the communication.
  • 5. Sentence. The elements of the sentence and word category. Syntactical function of the word categories. Transposition among word categories.
  • 6. Syntactical relations (coordination, subordination, apposition, predication).
  • 7. Completed analysis of the sentence, analytic methods. Graphical scheme of the structure of sentence.
  • 8. Subjective and non-subjective sentences. Equivalent of the sentence, their meaning and function.
  • 9. Valence of the predicative verb, the grammatical structure of the sentence, the classification of the valence structure of the sentence. Terminology of the valence syntax.
  • 10. Surface and deep structure of the sentence. Semantic elements of the structure of the sentence. Semantic function of the participants.
  • 11. Some irregularities in the structure of the sentence.
  • 12. Functional perspective of the sentence. Word order.
Literature
  • HAUSER, Přemysl. Cvičení ze současného českého jazyka : skladba. 2. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2002, 95 stran. ISBN 8021028033. info
  • Čeština - řeč a jazyk. Edited by Marie Čechová. 2. přeprac. vyd. Praha: ISV nakladatelství, 2000, 407 s. ISBN 80-85866-57-9. info
  • GREPL, Miroslav and Petr KARLÍK. Skladba češtiny (Czech Syntax). 1st ed. Olomouc: Votobia, 1998, 503 pp. ISBN 80-7198-281-4. info
  • Příruční mluvnice češtiny. Edited by Miroslav Grepl - Petr Karlík - Marek Nekula - Zdenka Rusínová. Vyd. 2., opr. Praha: Lidové noviny, 1996, 799 s. ISBN 8071061344. info
  • Mluvnice češtiny. 3, Skladba. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1987, 746 s. info
Teaching methods
- Controlled dialogue;
- problem methods, methods of the critical thinking (brainstorming, "map" of train of though...);
- text analysis, synthesis;
- study hours
Assessment methods
Seminary Course.
Ending: Examination
1. part: Written test in the end of the term; the test includes the themen of the course (see syllabus). The test is only practical and includes 30-40 elementary syntactical phenomena. To be succesfull the student shall answer 75 % of them correct.
2. part: Oral examination. It includes theoretical themen of the course - see syllabus and http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=115. The student decides by lot two questions. The answers are evaluated according to the correctness and to the speech cultivation, too.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=1211
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, autumn 2020, Autumn 2021.
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