AJ3BP_SYNA Syntax A

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2005
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jaroslav Ondráček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Petra Hoydenová
Timetable
Thu 12:50–13:35 učebna 60
Prerequisites
AJ3BP_SZKO Qualifying Exam
The students must pass the qualifying exam in the first year satisfactorily.
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 this lecture is to provide an introduction to the structure of the simple sentence,equipping the students with basic terms and practical skills which would enable them to start seeing the hierarchy and relationships of the basic constituents of a clause and carry out a very basic syntatic analysis using concrete English examples.The main emphasis is on students understanding the three-level syntactic analysis (syntactic functions-sentence elements,syntactc forms-types of phrases and clauses and,finally, word classes) employed and presented in the form of tree diagrams. Further topics are also discussed (modality,non-finite verb forms) to give the students some theoretical background for the practical work done in the seminar accompanying the lecture.
Syllabus
  • 1.Word,phrase,clause,sentence 2.Types of phrases.Noun phrase.Verb phrase. 3.Adjective phrase.Adverb phrase.Prepositional phrase. 4.Word classes.The structure of a word. 5.Simple sentence. 6.Complex sentence 7.Compound sentence 8.Types of subordinate clauses 9.Communicative modality and modality proper. An overview of the basic functions of English modal verbs 10.Nominal tendencies and sentence condensation in English 11.Sentence hierarchy and tree diagrams
Literature
  • JACKSON,H. Analysing English.Pergamon Press,1982.ISBN 0-08-028667-4
  • JACKSON,H.Discovering Grammar.Pergamon Press,1985.ISBN 0-08-031517-8
  • LOBECK,A.Discovering Grammar.Oxford:Oxford University Press,1987.ISBN 0-19-512984-9
Assessment methods (in Czech)
The course finishes with a written colloquy test containing the subject matter covered in various ways: students will be asked to explain a certain number of terms in English,write a paragraph summarising a certain topic to test their ability to express themselves linguistically accurately in English and will be required to analyse one known and one unknown sentence in the form of tree diagrams.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2006.
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