OJ536 Verbs and actions

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Ludmila Veselovská, Dr. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Tomáš Hoskovec, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Lucie Čelková
Timetable
each odd Monday 10:50–12:25 N01023
Prerequisites
Basic syntax course.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those 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, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to understand the most important problems from the area of syntax and semantics of verbal phrases. Students will be able to actively apply methods of formal syntax and semantics to data from Slavonic but also other Indoeuropean languages. Students will acquire insights into current theories of formal semantics and generative grammar.
Syllabus
  • This course is all about verbal phrases, their syntax and semantics. Methods: generative grammar and formal semantics. Keywords: constituent structure of VP, semantics verbs, functional projections, telicity, argument structure, event semantics.
Literature
  • bude průběžně zadávána při výuce
  • BORER, Hagit. In name only. Online. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xiv, 310. ISBN 0199263906. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
  • BORER, Hagit. The normal course of events. Online. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xiv, 400. ISBN 0199263922. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
  • CHOMSKY, Noam. The minimalist program. Online. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995. 420 s. ISBN 0-262-53128-3. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
  • VENDLER, Zeno. Linguistics in philosophy.. Online. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967, [citováno 2024-04-24] info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
Lectures. Student must write a paper on an assigned topic to successfuly complete this course.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2010, Spring 2012.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2011, recent)
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