OJX540 Prefixes and prepositions

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Markéta Ziková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Tomáš Hoskovec, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Lucie Čelková
Timetable
Mon 14:10–15:45 K22
Prerequisites
Knowledge of English.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 24 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/24, only registered: 0/24, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/24
Course objectives
Linguistic description of Slavic prefixes and prepositions (P&P) allows us to show tools of modern formal linguistics. P&P interact with the event structure (číst-přečíst), transitivity (spát *přednášku, pro-spat přednášku), vowel lengthening (vy-kopat X vý-kop), vowel-zero alternations (odejít X odtlačit). We will describe these facts in a formal manner. Our approach is based on the generative tradition, but also consider current trends in formal phonology and semantics.
Syllabus
  • Phonological structure of prepositions and prefixes. Allomorphy of prefixes vs. allomorphy of prepositions: vowel-zero alternations (od mámy, ode mně, odtlačit, odetnout), alternations of length (napsat, nápis). Interaction between phonology and morphology: infinitive as a templatic domain including (prát and proprat) or excluding prefixes (hrát and prohrát). Syntax and semantics of prefixed verbs: aspect as a composition of syntactic constituents on the VP level. Semantics: vector space semantics (the most promising current formal semantics conception describing location and movement). Slavic aspect as one of arguments for multi-dominance theories.
Literature
  • Scheer, Tobias. 2004. O samohláskové délce při derivaci v češtině. In Čeština – univerzália a specifika 5, Z. Hladká & P. Karlík (ed.), 224–239. Praha: NLN.
  • Zwarts, Joost and Winter, Yoad (2000): Vector space semantics: a model-theoretic analysis of locative prepositions. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 9:169–211.
  • Gehrke, Berit. 2005. The prepositional aspect of Slavic prefixes and the goal-source asymmetry. Ms., Universiteit Utrecht.
  • Filip, Hana. 2003. Prefixes and the delimitation of events. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 11.1, 55–101.
  • Zwarts, Joost (2005): Prepositional Aspect and the Algebra of Paths. Linguistics and Philosophy 28.6, 739-779.
  • Ramchand, Gillian Catriona (2007): Verb Meaning and Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax. Ms. Tromsø, lingBuzz/000346.
  • Ramchand, Gillian Catriona (1997): Aspect and Predication. The Semantics of Argument Structure. Clarendon Press: Oxford.
Teaching methods
lectures, class discussion
Assessment methods
closing test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2009, Spring 2010.
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