OJ515 Infinitive

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Petr Karlík, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Petr Karlík, CSc.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jaroslava Vybíralová
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
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Course objectives
The aim of the seminar is to provide an analysis of infinitive phrases in Czech, within various frames of formal grammar. Such analysis should demonstrate that the infinitive phrase in syntax carries various proportions of verbal structure: VP, vP, TP.
Syllabus
  • Various terms relating to standard syntactic analyses are explained: raising-construction, control- construction and AcI- construction, tenseless infinitives and tensed infinitives and also constructions with InfP within the restructuralization as either bi-clausal or mono-clausal.
Literature
  • Wurmbrand, S. (2001): Infinitives: Restructuring and Clause Structure.
  • Medová, L. (2000): Transparency Phenomena in Czech Syntax. MA Diss.,
  • Petter, M. (1998): Getting PRO under Control: a Syntactic Analysis of
  • Landau,I. (2000): Elements of Control: Structure and Meaning in
  • Postal, P. (1974): On Raising. Cambridge, Mass
  • Růžička, R. (1999): Control in Grammar and Pragmatics: a
  • Davies, W. D. - Dubinsky, S. (2004): The Grammar of Raising and Control.
Assessment methods
credit
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught: every week.
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