FF:AJ22065 Semantics: The English Verb - Course Information
AJ22065 Semantics: The English Verb
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2007
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 3 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Naděžda Kudrnáčová, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- AJ22065/A: Mon 15:00–16:35 G32, N. Kudrnáčová
AJ22065/B: Mon 16:40–18:15 G32, N. Kudrnáčová - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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- Course objectives
- The seminar deals with some of the problems of the semantics and syntax of the English verb, taking into consideration the functionalist and structuralist view. The seminar uses as its starting point Zeno Vendler's classification of verbs, which is largely based on the time schemata in which English verbs occur. In the analysis of English verbs the method of componential analysis will also be employed (the meaning of the lexeme is seen in terms of a number of discrete, distinct components of meaning). This is an investigative seminar, aimed at encouraging an active approach of students toward the subject matter.
- Syllabus
- - Vendler's time schemata - states, actions, accomplishments, achievements, semelfactives - verbal aspect - the dichotomy 'telicity' versus 'atelicity' - semantic multivalence of English verbs - internal semantic structure of English verbs versus their internal temporal structuration - componential analysis - English verbs in middle constructions
- Literature
- William Frawley: Linguistic Semantics (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum) 1992
- DUŠKOVÁ, Libuše. Mluvnice současné angličtiny : na pozadí češtiny. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1988, 673 p. info
- QUIRK, Randolph. A comprehensive grammar of the English language. Edited by David Crystal. London: Longman, 1985, x, 1779. ISBN 9780582517349. info
- DANEŠ, František. Věta a text : studie ze syntaxe spisovné češtiny. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1985, 234 s. URL info
- VENDLER, Zeno. Linguistics in philosophy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967. info
- Assessment methods (in Czech)
- Seminar; Assessment: a written test at the end of the course.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught each semester.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Předmět si nemohou zapsat studenti Bc. studia AJ
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2007, recent)
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