FF:NJII_1821A Dependency syntax - Course Information
NJII_1821A Dependency syntax
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 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 - Timetable
- Thu 10:00–10:50 L35
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
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- 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
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- 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
- H. Glinz: Deutsche Syntax. Stuttgart 1967.
- Eroms, Hans-Werner: Syntax der dt. Sprache, Berlin 2000.
- Altmann Hans: Prüfungswissen Syntax: Arbeitstechniken - Klausurfragen - Lösungen. Göttingen 2010.
- Grundlagen der Syntax. Jana Maroszová u. m. v. Marie Vachková. UK - Karolínum Praha 2009, ISBN 978-80-246-1659-9
- 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
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2021, recent)
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