CJA010 Modern Czech Syntax

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Petr Karlík, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jaroslava Vybíralová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Timetable of Seminar Groups
CJA010/A: Wed 12:30–14:05 U27, P. Karlík
CJA010/B: Mon 10:50–12:25 U15, P. Caha
CJA010/C: Mon 9:10–10:45 U22, P. Caha
CJA010/D: Wed 9:10–10:45 U4, P. Caha
Prerequisites
CJA001 Introduction into the Study of Czech Language and Linguistics
Students are recommended to attend simultaneously the lecture CJBB99 Syntax - přednáška.
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
Abstract
The aims of the course are: 1) to get the students acquainted with recent theories about the structure of a sentence as the elementary unit of the language system/of a text, 2. to help them understand the possibilities of the system for creating correct Czech sentences, 3. to help them understand formal relations among sentence elements. At the end of the course the students should be able to understand and capture the basic aspects of syntactic structure by means of a syntactic parse tree. The seminar is orientated practically, i.e. the focus is on application of the particular knowledge into practice when working with an example sentence.
Key topics
1. Syntactic structure 2. How to tell a constituent I 3. How to tell a constituent II 4. Properties of constituents 5. Word order I 6. Word order II 7. Binding I 8. Binding II 9. Move (A-movement) I 10. Move (Islands) II 11. Case theory 12. Syntax and its relation to morphology
Study resources and literature
    required literature
  • HAEGEMAN, Liliane M. V. Thinking syntactically : a guide to argumentation and analysis. 1st pub. Malden: Blackwell, 2006, xii, 386. ISBN 1405118520. info
    not specified
  • KARLÍK, Petr; Jana PLESKALOVÁ and Marek NEKULA. Encyklopedický slovník češtiny (Encyclopaedia of the Czech language). Praha: LN, 2002, 10 pp. Nakladatelství Lidové noviny. ISBN 80-7106-484-X. info
  • ŠMILAUER, Vladimír. Novočeská skladba. 2. vyd. v SPN, (v ČSSR 3. v. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1969, 574 s. URL info
  • GREPL, Miroslav and Petr KARLÍK. Skladba češtiny. Olomouc: Votobia, 1998, 503 s. ISBN 80-7198-281-4. info
  • DANEŠ, František; Zdeněk HLAVSA and Miroslav GREPL. Mluvnice češtiny. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1987, 746 s. info
Approaches, practices, and methods used in teaching
The methods used include theoretical and practical skills, the theoretical ones being to read assigned scholarly materials, the practical ones to analyze concrete Czech sentences/texts.
Method of verifying learning outcomes and course completion requirements
To complete the course successfully, it is necessary: 1) to participate actively and regularly in the seminars (to read assigned texts and to prepare for the seminars beforehand; the attendance is compulsory), 2) to succeed in a written exam (test).
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information about innovation of course.
This course has been innovated under the project "Faculty of Arts as Centre of Excellence in Education: Complex Innovation of Study Programmes and Fields at FF MU with Regard to the Requirements of the Knowledge Economy“ – Reg. No. CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0228, which is cofinanced by the European Social Fond and the national budget of the Czech Republic.

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