FF:AJP22065 Semantics: The English Verb - Course Information
AJP22065 Semantics: The English Verb
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 6 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Naděžda Kudrnáčová, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Jana Chamonikolasová, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Thu 8:00–9:40 G32, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.
- 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 5 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 1/5, only registered: 0/5 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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- Course objectives
- Objectives of the course: This course offers a detailed treatment of the semantics of English verbs for MA students. It provides students with a solid understanding of crucial aspects of verbal meaning and methods of its analysis. The course aims to encourage an active approach on the part of students toward the subject matter. Students will be acquainted with the lexico-semantic structure of English verbs, also with regard to the principled connections between verbal meaning and verbal syntactic behaviour. They will have an enhanced knowledge of major verbal classes and of the semantic structure of English verbs from the perspective of their internal logical and temporal structuration. They will also have an enhanced knowledge of major componential approaches to verbal meaning. The course is taught in English.
- Learning outcomes
- After completing the course, students will be able to: - read and understand literature in the field - discuss problems related to the semantics of English verbs - describe major verbal classes - identify and describe components of verbs´ semantic structures, also in relation to verbal syntactic behaviour - write an essay on topics in verbal semantics
- Syllabus
- The topics covered in the course are as follows: - ontology of verbs
- - verbs as predication expressions
- - types of verbs in relation to argument structure
- - internal temporal structuration of verbs
- - semantic dichotomies
- - progressiveness
- - major verb classes
- - sense relations among verbs
- - motion verbs with regard to language typology
- - decompositional approaches to verbal meaning
- - semantic primitives
- - verbal meaning in relation to verbal syntactic behaviour
- - unaccusativity
- - verb alternations
- Literature
- required literature
- MURPHY, M. Lynne. Lexical meaning. First published. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, xvii, 256. ISBN 9780521677646. info
- VENDLER, Zeno. Linguistics in philosophy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967. info
- HUDDLESTON, Rodney and Geoffrey K. PULLUM. The Cambridge grammar of the English language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xvii, 1842. ISBN 9780521431460. info
- QUIRK, Randolph. A comprehensive grammar of the English language. Edited by David Crystal. London: Longman, 1985, x, 1779. ISBN 9780582517349. info
- DUŠKOVÁ, Libuše. Mluvnice současné angličtiny : na pozadí češtiny. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1988, 673 p. info
- Linguistic semantics. Edited by William Frawley. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum associates, 1992, xvii, 533. ISBN 0805810757. info
- COMRIE, B.: Aspect. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
- recommended literature
- LEVIN, Beth. English verb classes and alternations : a preliminary investigation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993, xviii, 348. ISBN 0-226-47532-8. info
- CROFT, W. Verbs:Aspect and Causal Structure.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- R.M.W. DIXON. A Semantic Approach to English Grammar. 2005. info
- FABER, Pamela B. and Ricardo MAIRAL USÓN. Constructing a lexicon of english verbs. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999, xxi, 350. ISBN 3110164167. info
- Teaching methods
- One seminar every week.
- Assessment methods
- Seminar attendance is compulsory. At the end of the course, students can either sit a written exam or submit an essay (after submission, the essay is discussed with the teacher; this discussion is graded, i.e. is part of the final grade for the essay). Prerequisite for taking the exam/submitting an essay: delivering an in-class presentation.
- 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
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