N2BK_MOR1 Morphology 1

Faculty of Education
Spring 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Roland Anton Wagner, M.A., Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Káňa, Ph.D.
Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Helena Rytířová
Supplier department: Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
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
At the end of the term, students should be able to form the different forms of German nouns, pronouns and adjectives and to employ them in appropriate contexts.
Syllabus
  • - Exercise in finding word forms in texts and arranging them into paradigms;
  • - Analysis of word forms into stems and affixes;
  • - Formation and use of genitive forms in modern German;
  • - The week declension of German nouns;
  • - Plural forms and their predictability from the basic form;
  • - Pluralia tantum and defects in the plural formation of German nouns;
  • - The pronominal declension, case markers;
  • - The declension of the adjectives according to the syntactic context;
  • - Gradation of adjectives;
  • - The derivation of nouns and the dependence of the gender on the derivational suffix;
  • - The derivation of adjectives;
  • - Use of the German articles;
Literature
    required literature
  • GEISLEROVÁ, Olga. Einführung in die Morphologie der deutschen Sprache : Studienmaterial für die Lehramtstudenten. 2. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2011, 126 stran. ISBN 9788021054356. info
  • GEISLEROVÁ, Olga. Übungsbuch der deutschen Grammatik. 1st ed. Brno: Pedagogická fakulta MU, 2006, 80 pp. ISBN 80-210-4111-0. info
  • GEISLEROVÁ, Olga. Lösungsschlüssel zum Übungsbuch der deutschen Grammatik. Neuauflage. (Answer Key for the Exercecis of German Grammar). 2. dotisk 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2011, 80 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-4326-8. info
    recommended literature
  • EISENBERG, Peter. Grundriß der deutschen Grammatik. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1999, 551 s. ISBN 3-476-01642-0. info
  • HELBIG, Gerhard and Joachim BUSCHA. Deutsche Grammatik :ein Handbuch für den Ausländerunterricht. Berlin: Langenscheidt, 2001, 654 s. ISBN 3-468-49493-9. info
Teaching methods
seminar
Assessment methods
In order to get credit points (a “zapocet”) students are required to:
1. regularly attend classes (no more than three absences),
2. prepare homework assigned during the semester,
3. pass a written test at the end of the semester (a minimum of 70% of the overall amount of points is required),
4. hand in an excerpt of an article published in a linguistic journal.
Language of instruction
German
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every other week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2015, recent)
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