FJ2027 Professional French Syntax 1

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Václava Bakešová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Václava Bakešová, Ph.D.
Department of French Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Barbora Hůrková
Supplier department: Department of French Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable
Mon 15:00–15:50 učebna 10
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
FJ2027/01: Mon 17:00–17:50 učebna 10, V. Bakešová
Prerequisites
FJ2010 French Morphology 1 && FJ2047 French Morphology 2
The course is intended for students of the 2nd year of the French language program for administration.
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 lecture builds on the morphological knowledge of the French professional language and includes a theoretical explanation of the questions of its composition. Knowledge is practiced and deepened in the seminar on the examples of professional texts. The aim of the course is to enable students to understand the composition of a French sentence, the function of part of speech in sentence members, the structure and specifics of professional language and the regularity of the conformity of the subject with the predicate; further analyze sentences in coordination and subordination relations and explain the word order in individual types of sentences.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course the student will be able to: master the terminology needed for syntactic analysis of a sentence; identify sentence members and word order; understand the structure of simple sentences and clauses with a focus on the relationship between syntax and morphology in professional French; interpret the specifics of syntactic analysis of professional texts; specify types of sentences and clauses.
Syllabus
  • Part of speech (parties du discours) - repetition of terminology, examples. Functions of part of speech: sentence members (membres de la proposition) - terminology and examples. Functions of nouns in various sentence members. Verb functions. Subject and predicate. Subject verb agreement. Types of predicates. Participles and their functions, their use in professional language. Types of sentences. French sentence structure. Specifics of professional language. Coordinate sentences, coordination relations. Juxtaposition. Subordinate clauses: subordinate clauses according to their function.
Literature
    required literature
  • HENDRICH, J., RADINA, O., TLÁSKAL, J. Francouzská mluvnice. 3. vyd.Plzeň : Fraus, 2001. 700 s. ISBN 80-7238-064-8.
  • RIEGEL, Martin, Jean-Christophe PELLAT and René RIOUL. Grammaire méthodique du français. 6e édition. Paris: PUF, 2016, xliii, 110. ISBN 9782130732853. info
  • SEKVENT, Karel. Slovní druhy a jejich větně-členské funkce ve francouzštině (Word classes and their functioning as clause members in French language). 1. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012, 54 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-5881-1. info
    recommended literature
  • Laurent, N. a B. Delaunay. Bescherelle. Maîtriser la grammaire française. Paris: Hatier, 2018. 192 s. ISBN 978-2-218-99206-3.
  • MERCIER-LECA, Florence. 35 questions de grammaire française. Malakoff: Armand Colin, 2019, 331 stran. ISBN 9782200624712. info
  • CAQUINEAU-GÜNDÜZ, Marie-Pierre. Les 500 exercices de grammaire : niveau B2 : [avec corrigés]. Paris: Hachette, 2007, 256 s. ISBN 9782011554383. info
Teaching methods
Lecture, seminary.
Assessment methods
Ending: credit. Lecture with active participation (70%), successful sentences analysis and tests during semestre (70 %).
Language of instruction
French
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2023, recent)
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