CJ3BP_JSy1 Contemporary Czech Syntax 1

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Ivana Kolářová, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Ivana Kolářová, CSc.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Petra Rozbořilová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites
CJ3BP_JMor The Contemp. Czech Morphology
It is presupposed the student has successfully finished the subject CJ3BP_JMor (Morphology of the Contemporary Czech Language).
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
Course objectives
The student shall obtain a basic competence in the syntax of contemporary Czech language.
The targets of the subject:
(a) an establishment of the knowledge of syntactical terminology;
(b) an establishment and development of the ability to apply the methodology of the analysis of the sentence, clause and elements of the sentence;
(c) an establishment and development of the ability to interpret the meaning of the utterance in the communication;
(d) an establishment and development of the ability to explain the participation of the language means in the expressing of communicative function of the utterance.
Learning outcomes
It is presupposed that students after finishing the course:
1. know the terminology of the syntax and are able to explain the terminology of contemporary theories of syntax dealing with the sentence and enunciation;
2. are able to explain differences between the analytic ("traditional") syntax of the syntax and valence syntax;
3. are able to make complex analysis of the sentence in the term of the analytic or valence syntax;
4. are able to explain relation between formal structure and semantics (surface and deep structure) of the sentence;
5. are able to explicate the language expressions of the communicative functions of the sentence/enunciation depending up the communicative situation and context.
Syllabus
  • 1. The Sentence as a grammatical unit, sentence as a communicative unit. Communicative function of the sentence, proposition of the sentence. Modality of the sentence.
  • 2. Modality of the attitude of the speaker. Language meaning of the attitude of the speakers (particles, interjection; voice of the verbs; intonation) in the text.
  • 3. The voluntary modality of the sentence (eventuality, necessity, intention). The modality of the sureness. The language means of the modality.
  • 4. Interpretation of the lexical, grammatical and phonetic language means of the expression of the communicative function of the sentence. Communicative form of the sentence. Explicit performativ forms in the communication. Modal verbs, attitudinal predicators and particles and their communicative meaning.
  • 5. Sentence. The elements of the sentence and word category. Syntactical function of the word categories. Transposition among word categories.
  • 6. Syntactical relations (coordination, subordination, apposition, predication). Determination - congruence, governance, association/adjunction.
  • 7. Completed analysis of the sentence, analytic methods. Graphical scheme of the structure of sentence.
  • 8. Subjective and non-subjective sentences. Equivalent of the sentence, their meaning and function.
  • 9. Valence of the predicative verb, the grammatical structure of the sentence, the classification of the valence structure of the sentence. Terminology of the valence syntax.
  • 10. Surface and deep structure of the sentence. Semantic elements of the structure of the sentence. Semantic function of the participants.
  • 11. Using data of Czech National Corpus as a base for the syntactic analysis.
Literature
  • ŠTÍCHA, František a kol. Akademická gramatika spisovné češtiny. 1st ed. Praha: Academia. 974 pp. ISBN 978-80-200-2205-9. 2013. info
  • Čeština - řeč a jazyk. Edited by Marie Čechová. 2. přeprac. vyd. Praha: ISV nakladatelství. 407 s. ISBN 80-85866-57-9. 2000. info
  • GREPL, Miroslav and Petr KARLÍK. Skladba češtiny (Czech Syntax). 1st ed. Olomouc: Votobia. 503 pp. ISBN 80-7198-281-4. 1998. info
  • Příruční mluvnice češtiny. Edited by Miroslav Grepl - Petr Karlík - Marek Nekula - Zdenka Rusínová. Vyd. 2., opr. Praha: Lidové noviny. 799 s. ISBN 8071061344. 1996. info
  • DANEŠ, František, Zdeněk HLAVSA and Miroslav GREPL. Mluvnice češtiny. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia. 746 s. 1987. info
  • Mluvnice češtiny. 3, Skladba. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia. 746 s. 1987. info
Teaching methods
- Controlled dialogue;
- problem methods, methods of the critical thinking (brainstorming, "map" of train of though...);
- Individual sentential analysis with recognition of elements of sentence and relationships among them;
- Study hours.
Assessment methods
Structure of the examination
1. part: Written test includes the themen of the course (see syllabus). The test is only practical and includes 30-40 elementary syntactical phenomena. To be classified "E" the student shall answer correct 75 % tasks of the test. Student have to pass the test successfully before doing the oral exam.
2. part: Oral examination. It includes theoretical theme of the course - see syllabus and http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=115. The student decides by lot two questions. The answers are evaluated according to the correctness and to the speech cultivation, too.
If the student does not pass the test successfully, the whole exam is classified "F" in that examination term.
If the student past the test successfully and fail to do the oral exam, he have to do the oral exam only on the the retake.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: individuální konzultace.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=1211
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, autumn 2020.
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