P122 Formal structure of natural language

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2001
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Petr Peňáz (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: PhDr. Petr Peňáz
Timetable
Fri 9:00–10:50 C511
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Doporučeno před zápisem Základu počítačové lingvistiky a Úvodu do korpusové lingvistiky.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Syllabus
  • Language and its function: communicative, conative, referential, phatic, expressive, aesthetic.
  • The sign nature and the systematic nature of language; semiology.
  • Phonology; the articulatory and acoustic features of phones.
  • Phonemics; phonem, phonological opposition, distinctive feature.
  • Morphology, grammatical categories of gender, number, case, person, tense, aspect, mood, voice; morphological typology of languages.
  • Formal syntax (descriptive, generative), functional syntax (dependence and case grammar).
  • Speech acts theory; textual linguistics.
  • Lexicology; semasiology, onomasiology; lexicography.
Literature
  • Úvod do studia jazyka. Edited by Jiří Černý. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Rubico, 1998, 243 s. ISBN 80-85839-24-5. info
  • MATERNA, Pavel, Karel PALA and Jiří ZLATUŠKA. Logická analýza přirozeného jazyka. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1989, 143 s. ISBN 80-200-0027-5. info
  • HJELMSLEV, Louis. O základech teorie jazyka. Translated by František Čermák. Vydání 1. Praha: Academia, 1972, 154 stran. info
  • LYONS, John. Introduction to theoretical linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968, x, 519. ISBN 0521095107. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1999, Autumn 2000.
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