RJ2015 Russian Syntax 1

Faculty of Education
Spring 2026
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Bc. Oxana Truhlářová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Bc. Oxana Truhlářová, Ph.D.
Department of Other Foreign Languages – Faculty of Education
Supplier department: Department of Other Foreign Languages – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites
Knowledge of Russian language at the level B2-C1
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
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Abstract
The goal of course is to deepen the knowledge of Russian syntax, both in the aspect of the system and communicative perspective. Attention is given to the matching of similarities and differences between Russian and Czech syntactic system. Comparison of the target and the mother languages will focus first of all on the translation.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course the student will be able to describe the syntactic system of Russian language and to confront it with the Czech system; to characterize grammatical and semantic structure of Russian simple and compound sentences; to correctly create different types of Russian simple and compound sentences.
Key topics
  • 1. Syntax as a grammatical part. The subject of syntax.
  • Syntactical units and their relations in sentence.
  • 2. Classification of sentences. Main sentence elements.
  • 3. Sentence elements: object, attribute, apposition, adverbials.
  • 4. One-element and two-element sentences.
  • 5. Elliptical sentences.
  • 6. Multiple sentence elements. Sentence with adverbial participle. Separating parts of sentence.
  • 7. Word order in the sentence. Evolving sentence elements.
  • 8. Compound and Complex sentences. General characteristics.
  • 9. Compound sentence. Classification.
  • 10. Complex sentence. Classification.
  • 11. Asyndetic sentence. Typology.
  • 12. The sentence with different type of syntactic connection. General characteristics and classification. Punctuation in complex and compound sentences.
  • 13. Syntactic analysis of text.
Study resources and literature
    required literature
  • VALGINA, N.S. Sovremennyj russkij jazyk. Šesté. Moskva: Logos, 2001. info
  • FLÍDROVÁ, Helena; Stanislav ŽAŽA and Aleš BRANDNER. Sintaksis russkogo jazyka v sopostavlenii s češskim. V Tribunu EU vyd. 1. Brno: Tribun EU, 2013, 157 s. ISBN 9788026303558. info
  • VALGINA, Nina Sergejevna. Aktivnyje processy v sovremennom russkom jazyke. Moskva: Logos, 2003, 302 s. ISBN 5940100929. info
    recommended literature
  • Russkij jazyk : enciklopedija. Edited by Jurij Nikolajevič Karaulov. Moskva: Bol'šaja rossijskaja enciklopedija, 2003, 703 s. ISBN 5710774308. info
  • BĚLIČOVÁ, Helena and Ludmila UHLÍŘOVÁ. Slovanská věta. Vyd. 1. Praha: Euroslavica, 1996, 277 s. ISBN 8085494272. info
  • BĚLIČOVÁ, Helena and Jan SEDLÁČEK. Slovanské souvětí. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1990, 227 s. ISBN 8020002987. info
  • CHIMIK, Vasilij Vasil‘jevič. Praktičeskij sintaksis russkogo jazyka : učebno-metodičeskoje posobije dlja inostrannych učaščichsja. Sankt-Peterburg: Zlatoust, 2001, 92 s. ISBN 5865472054. info
Approaches, practices, and methods used in teaching
Lectures. Regular preparing for the lessons (theory and terminology).
Method of verifying learning outcomes and course completion requirements
Oral exam (theoretical topics with examples, syntactical analysis, terminology).
Language of instruction
Russian
Follow-Up Courses
Study support
https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/ped/jaro2024/RJ2015/index.qwarp
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2027.
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