PdF:AJ2BP_SSYB Syntax Seminar B - Course Information
AJ2BP_SSYB Syntax Seminar B
Faculty of EducationSpring 2021
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught online. - Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Radek Vogel, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education - Prerequisites
- AJ2BP_SSYA Syntax Seminar A
This course can be attended by all students who have successfully finished Syntax A. - 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
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Course objectives
- The main goal of the course is to master characteristic features of English syntax, mainly in comparison with the structure of the students´ mother tongue, the Czech language. The differences between the simple sentence, compound sentence and complex sentence will be studied, including all types of dependent clauses and complex condensation.
- Learning outcomes
- The students are expected: 1. to understand linguistic terms from the area of syntax and to be able to explain them on concrete examples; 2. to understand the structure of the compound and complex sentence in comparison with the structure of the simple sentence, especially when compared to the structure of the sentence in the Czech language; 3. to know the language means for the expression of a variety of relations realized by different types of subordinate clauses, namely nominal, adverbial, relative and comparative clauses; 4. to be capable of identifying concrete, even more complex, syntactic structures in the written text and to know how to explain and descrive them while using adequate linguistic terms.
- Syllabus
- 1. Coordination. Compound sentence and co-ordinating conjunctions, including correlative pairs. 2. Coordination of nominal phrases. Simple and complex coordination. Minor types of coordination. 3. Complementation of verbs and adjectives. Multi-word verbs. Prepositional, phrasal and phrasal-prepositinal verbs. 4. Subordination. Complex sentence and subordinating conjunctions. Three structural classes of dependent clauses (finite, non-finite and verbless). Transferred negation. Emphasising negation. 5. Four major semantic classes of dependent clauses (nominal, adverbial, relative and comparative). Nominal clauses. 6. Direct and indirect speech and their means of expression. Adverbial clauses of result and cause. 7. Adverbial clauses of purpose (standard and infinitive constructions). 8. Adverbial clauses of concession, time and place. 9. Alternative ways of expression for cause, purpose and concession. Prepositional constructions. 10. Types of condition (open, hypothetical, rhetorical and indirect). Adverbial clauses of condition. 11. Subordinate clauses as part of other sentence elements. Comparative clauses. 12. Two types of relative clauses. Relative pronouns and relative adverbials. Reduced relative clauses.
- Literature
- required literature
- CHALKER, Sylvia. A student's English grammar : workbook. First published. Harlow: Longman, 1992, 186 stran. ISBN 0582088194. info
- GETHIN, Hugh. Grammar in context :proficiency level English. New edition. Harlow: Longman, 1996, 235 s. ISBN 0-17-556420-5. info
- YULE, George. Oxford practice grammar : supplementary exercises with answers. First published. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, v, 132. ISBN 9780194579872. info
- recommended literature
- DEUCHAR, Margaret, Robert HOOGENRAAD and Geoffrey Neil LEECH. English grammar for today :a new introduction. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1982, xvi, 224 s. ISBN 0-333-30644-9. info
- CHALKER, Sylvia. English grammar :word by word. Harlow: Longman, 1990, 448 s. ISBN 0-17-555705-5. info
- SVARTVIK, Jan and Geoffrey N. LEECH. A communicative grammar of English. 2nd ed. London: Longman, 1994, xiv, 423. ISBN 058208573X. info
- CHALKER, Sylvia. Current English grammar. London: Macmillan, 1984, 296 p. ; 2. ISBN 0-333-35025-169. info
- Teaching methods
- Mode of teaching: lecture The methods used in classes are mainly presentations of new and/or problematic grammatical issues by the teacher, followed by class discussions and questions from students and practical exercises selected from the compulsory textbooks. As for written assignments, students are supposed to do all the tests which accompany the topics studies and which are included in the is.muni.cz course Seminar to syntax B/Syntax B.
- Assessment methods
- In order to be allowed to sit for the oral exam, students have to pass a mid-term test and translation, and a final exam test and translation. The passmark of all the tests including translations is 70 per cent. The final exam test and translation are part of the oral exam, which focuses on the most important topics studied in the spring term.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week. - Teacher's information
- https://is.muni.cz/auth/ucitel/warp_predmet_vyber?fakulta=1441;obdobi=7543;predmet=1173207,1180078;uvodnik=a
FOR ONLINE SEMESTER: Students are requested to secure good internet connection in order to participate in online lessons as indicated in the schedule. Students must attend these meetings with both the sound and camera on.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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