FF:OJ540 Prefixes and prepositions - Course Information

OJ540 Prefixes and prepositions

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 4 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 15:00–16:35 C11

Prerequisites

Knowledge of English.

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 60 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/60, only registered: 0/60

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Czech Literature (programme FF, D-FI4)
• Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
• Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
• Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, M-FI) (2)
• Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, M-HS)
• Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
• Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
• Czech Language (programme FF, D-FI4)
• Czech Language with Orientation on Computational Linguistics (programme FF, B-FI)
• Czech Language for Foreigners (programme FF, B-FI)
• General Linguistics (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
• General Linguistics (programme FF, B-HS)
• General Linguistics (programme FF, D-FI4)
• General Linguistics (programme FF, M-FI)
• General Linguistics (programme FF, M-HS)
• General Linguistics (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
• General Linguistics (programme FF, N-HS)
• Indo-European Comparative Linguistics (programme FF, D-FI4)

Course objectives

At the end of the course studnets should be able to understand to the formal structure of Slavic prepositions and prefixes (P&P) and to use their knowledges during the analysis of language data.

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

• Zwarts, Joost (2005): Prepositional Aspect and the Algebra of Paths. Linguistics and Philosophy 28.6, 739-779.
• Filip, Hana. 2003. Prefixes and the delimitation of events. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 11.1, 55–101.
• 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.
• 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.
• Gehrke, Berit. 2005. The prepositional aspect of Slavic prefixes and the goal-source asymmetry. Ms., Universiteit Utrecht.
• 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.

Teaching methods

lectures, class discussion

Assessment methods

closing test

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials

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