PV122 Formal structure of natural language

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2003
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
Thu 16:00–17:50 C511
Prerequisites (in Czech)
! P122 Formal structure of NL
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
Course objectives
The aim of the subject is (a) to introduce the students interested in the specialization towards the analysis of natural language into the methodology of the analysis of language as a sign system, (b) to explain the basic linguistic terminology, and thus (c) to make the special linguistic literature accessible for them.
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
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012.
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