TCZJ32 Syntax of Sign Languages

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2023

The course is not taught in Autumn 2023

Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lucia Vlášková (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lucia Vlášková
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Aneta Fidrichová
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
TCZJ23 Morphology of Sign Language && TCZJ11 Phonology of Sign Language && TCZJ08 Phonetics/Phonology - lecture && TCZJ18 Morphonology and morphology
Prerequisites: TCZJ11 Phonetics and Phonology of Sign Languages; TCZJ23 Morphology of Sign Languages; TCZJ08 General Phonetics and Phonology, TCZJ18 Morphonology and Morphology.
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 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
In the course, students will acquire knowledge with the combinatorial component of natural language, which allows simple linguistic units to combine into complex structures such as phrases and sentences. The course focuses on selected syntactic rules and phenomena, which are analyzed from the perspectives of both spoken and sign languages, with particular emphasis on their comparison.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the students have acquired an analytic perspective on selected syntactic phenomena and are able to analyze specific examples from various sign languages. They gain an understanding of the rules of syntax in natural language and can compare selected phenomena in sign and spoken languages.
Syllabus
  • sentence types
  • word order, sign order
  • ellipsis
  • null arguments
  • topic and focus
  • coordination
  • subordination
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Sign language : an international handbook. Edited by Roland Pfau - Markus Steinbach - B. Woll. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2012, xii, 1126. ISBN 9783110204216. info
  • SignGram Blueprint : a guide to sign language grammar writing. Edited by Brendan Costello - Rannveig Sverrisdóttir - Josep Quer - Carlo Cecche. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019, lxxii, 823. ISBN 9781501518966. info
  • The linguistics of sign languages : an introduction. Edited by Anne Baker - Beppie van den Bogaerde - Roland Pfau - Trude Schermer. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016, xv, 378. ISBN 9789027212306. info
  • SANDLER, Wendy and Diane C. LILLO-MARTIN. Sign language and linguistic universals. First published. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, xx, 547. ISBN 9780521483957. info
  • KARLÍK, Petr, Marek NEKULA, Jana PLESKALOVÁ, Jarmila BACHMANNOVÁ, Jan BALHAR, Aleš BIČAN, Lenka BIČANOVÁ, Jana BÍLKOVÁ, Petr BISKUP, Ondřej BLÁHA, Izabela BLASZCZYK, Václav BLAŽEK, Michaela BOHÁČOVÁ, Ondřej BOJAR, Tomáš BOŘIL, Máša BOŘKOVCOVÁ, Ivana BOZDĚCHOVÁ, Pavel CAHA, Václav CVRČEK, Radek ČECH, Marie ČECHOVÁ, František ČERMÁK, David S DANAHER, František DANEŠ, Jaroslav DAVID, Mojmír DOČEKAL, Jakub DOTLAČIL, Vít DOVALIL, Věra DVOŘÁK, Eva ECKERTOVÁ, Viktor ELŠÍK, Joseph Embley EMONDS, Adolf ERHART, Francois ESVAN, Dan FALTÝNEK, Masako FIDLER, Fidlerová Alena ANDRLOVÁ, Zbyněk FIŠER, Eva FLANDERKOVÁ, Mirjam FRIED, Markus GIGER, Miroslav GREPL, Jan HAJIČ, Eva HAJIČOVÁ, Ernst HANSACK, Björn HANSEN, Radoslav HARMAN, Milan HARVALÍK, Martin HAVLÍK, Eva HAVLOVÁ, Milada HIRSCHOVÁ, Zdeňka HLADKÁ, Jana HOFFMANNOVÁ, Jiří HOMOLÁČ, Milada HOMOLKOVÁ, Jan HRIC, Jaroslav HUBÁČEK, Jan CHLOUPEK, Leonid IOMDIN, Pavel IRCING, Laura A JANDA, Ilona JANYŠKOVÁ, Tomáš JELÍNEK, Milan JELÍNEK, Lucie JÍLKOVÁ, Filip JURČÍČEK, Michal JURKA, Petr KADERKA, ml Petr KARLÍK, Helena KARLÍKOVÁ, Stanislava KLOFEROVÁ, Martina KLOUDOVÁ, Miloslava KNAPPOVÁ, Robert KOLÁR, Ivana KOLÁŘOVÁ, Marie KOPŘIVOVÁ, Jan KOŘENSKÝ, Pavel KOSEK, Peter KOSTA, Michaela KOŠČOVÁ, Jiří KOTEN, Ondřej KOUPIL, Michal KOVÁŘ, Michala KRÁLÍKOVÁ, Marie KRAPPMANN, Jiří KRAUS, Marie KRČMOVÁ, Susan KRESIN, Michal KŘEN, Michal KŘÍSTEK, Pavel KUBANÍK, Miroslav KUBÁT, Tomáš KUBÍK, Vladislav KUBOŇ, Ivona KUČEROVÁ, Natalia LEVSHINA, Alena MACUROVÁ, Ján MAČUTEK, Jaroslaw Artur MALICKI, Petr MAREŠ, Olga MARTINCOVÁ, Jindřich MATOUŠEK, Medová Lucie TARALDSEN, Barbara MERTINS, Roland MEYER, Krzysztof Marek MIGDALSKI, Eva MINÁŘOVÁ, Kamila MRÁZKOVÁ, Iveta MRÁZOVÁ, Richard MÜLLER, Mira NÁBĚLKOVÁ, Olga NAVRÁTILOVÁ, Iva NEBESKÁ, Anna NEDOLUZHKO, Jiří NEKVAPIL, Zuzana NEVĚŘILOVÁ, Stefan Michael NEWERKLA, Mark NEWSON, Pavel NOVÁK, Renata NOVOTNÁ, Norbert Georg NÜBLER, Radek OCELÁK, Karel OLIVA, Ivo OSOLSOBĚ, Klára OSOLSOBĚ, Ludmila PACNEROVÁ, Karel PALA, Zdena PALKOVÁ, Jarmila PANEVOVÁ, Pavel PECINA, Jaroslav PEREGRIN, Anna Maria PERISSUTTI, Ondřej PEŠEK, Vladimír PETKEVIČ, Petr PLECHÁČ, Jan RADIMSKÝ, Paul Richard RASTALL, Alexandr ROSEN, Zdenka RUSÍNOVÁ, Římalová Lucie SAICOVÁ, Tamah SHERMAN, Tobias SCHEER, Boris SKALKA, Radek SKARNITZL, Marián SLOBODA, Olga STEHLÍKOVÁ, Hana STRACHOŇOVÁ, Jana STRAKOVÁ, Roman SUKAČ, Zbyněk SVITÁK, Aleš SVOBODA, Ondřej ŠEFČÍK, Radek ŠIMÍK, Milena ŠIPKOVÁ, Škrabalová Hana GRUET, Dušan ŠLOSAR, Rudolf ŠRÁMEK, Jan ŠTĚPÁN, František ŠTÍCHA, Michaela TABAKOVIČOVÁ, Knut Tarald TARALDSEN, Jiří TRÁVNÍČEK, Vladimír TRPKA, Jana Marie TUŠKOVÁ, Ludmila UHLÍŘOVÁ, Lenka ULIČNÁ, Oldřich ULIČNÝ, Jana VALDROVÁ, Irena VAŇKOVÁ, Ivo VASILJEV, Radoslav VEČERKA, Jarmil VEPŘEK, Ljuba VESELINOVA, Ludmila VESELOVSKÁ, Kateřina VESELOVSKÁ, Jan VOLÍN, Taťána VYKYPĚLOVÁ, Roland Anton WAGNER, James WILSON, Uliana YAZHINOVA, Daniel ZEMAN, Jiří ZEMAN, Šárka ZIKÁNOVÁ, Markéta ZIKOVÁ, Petr ZIMA, Ilse ZIMMERMANN, Zdeněk ŽABOKRTSKÝ, Stanislav ŽAŽA, Gabriel ALTMANN, Jan ANDRES and van der Johan AUWERA. Nový encyklopedický slovník češtiny (New Encyclopaedia of Czech). První vydání. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2016, 2150 pp. ISBN 978-80-7422-480-5. info
  • A matter of complexity : subordination in sign languages. Edited by Roland Pfau - Markus Steinbach - Annika Herrmann. Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2016, vii, 262. ISBN 9781501511332. info
Teaching methods
lectures, discussion
Assessment methods
homework assignments, written exam
Language of instruction
Slovak
Further Comments
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2022, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2023, recent)
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