NLI_04 Introduction to Linguistics

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Vlastimil Brom, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Marta Kostelecká, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Vlastimil Brom, Ph.D.
Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Marta Kostelecká, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
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
Course objectives
In a number of lectures students learn about the subject, methods and tendencies of contemporary Dutch linguistics. Questions such as human speech, how we have it or what we can look at and how it can be explored is at the center of interest. The students will also learn about the basics of the individual linguistic disciplines, the current Dutch language policy as well as the printed and electronic sources of scientific information about the Dutch language needed for study. Each lecture is followed by a seminar on which students are looking for solutions to specific tasks assigned to the topic being discussed.
Learning outcomes
students are acquainted with linguistic disciplines and terminology
Syllabus
  • Language and linguistics
  • Research Methods
  • Visual Basic and Communication Action
  • Language sign and Structuralism
  • Language level - Phonetic and Phonological
  • linguistic level - morphological
  • Language level - Syntax
  • Language level - Lexicology
  • Language and Society
  • language varieties
  • language and pragmatics
Literature
    required literature
  • Černý, J., Dějiny lingvistiky, Votobia 1996.
  • Křížová, K. et.al.: Capita selecta z nizozemské lingvistiky. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2017
    recommended literature
  • Bennis, H., Syntaxis van het Nederlands, Amsterdam University Press 2000.
  • Willemyns, R. Dutch. Biography of a Language. Oxford University Press, 2013
  • Vries, Jan de - Willemys, Roland - Burger, Peter [nederlandista]. Het verhaal van een taal: negen eeuwen Nederlands. Amsterdam: Prometheus [Uitgeverij Prometheus], 1995.
  • Janssen, Theo (red.). Taal in gebruik. Een inleiding in de taalwetenschap. Sdu: 2003.
  • Čermák, F., Jazyk a jazykověda: přehled a slovníky. Praha: Karolinum, 2001.
  • Dirven, R. / Verspoor, M., Cognitieve inleiding tot taal en taalwetenschap. Leuven: Acco, 2001.
Teaching methods
lecture, seminar, student presentations
Assessment methods
written test and essay
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2022, Spring 2023.
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