FF:AJ22065 Semantics: The English Verb - Course Information
AJ22065 Semantics: The English Verb
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2009
- 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
- Tue 15:00–16:35 G31
- 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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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- Course objectives
- Objectives of the course: The course provides students with a solid understanding of the semantic structure of English verbs. The course aims to encourage an active approach on the part of students toward the subject matter. Students successfully completing the course will be able to categorize English verbs and to interpret their internal semantic structure. They will also be able to examine the syntactic behaviour of verbs in relation to their semantic properties.
- Syllabus
- Description of the course: This is an investigative seminar, designed for advanced students. The topics covered in the course are as follows: - basic situation types
- - 'telicity' versus 'atelicity'
- - achievements
- - internal semantic structure of English verbs versus their internal temporal structuration
- - semantic multivalence of English verbs
- - modal verbs
- - internal semantic structure of verbs in relation to their syntactic behaviour
- - verbs in middle constructions
- - verbs in passive constructions
- - causative verbs
- - motion verbs
- - verbs versus nouns
- - event structuration as reflected in verbal semantics
- 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
- VENDLER, Zeno. Linguistics in philosophy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967. info
- Teaching methods
- One 1.5 hour seminar with students' participation (students will each prepare a 15-20 minute presentation on a selected topic).
- Assessment methods
- Seminar attendance is compulsory. Assessment: students can choose between a written test and a research paper (examining the issues dealt with in the seminars). The breakdown of the marking is as follows: - Oral presentation: 20% - Research paper (or a written test): 80%
- 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 2009, recent)
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