FF:OJ536 Verbs and actions - Course Information
OJ536 Verbs and actions
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2012
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Ludmila Veselovská, Dr. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- doc. RNDr. Tomáš Hoskovec, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Lucie Čelková
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- each odd Monday 10:50–12:25 C32
- Prerequisites
- Basic syntax course.
- 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 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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- Course objectives
- At the end of the course students should be able to understand the most important problems from the area of syntax and semantics of verbal phrases. Students will be able to actively apply methods of formal syntax and semantics to data from Slavonic but also other Indoeuropean languages. Students will acquire insights into current theories of formal semantics and generative grammar.
- Syllabus
- This course is all about verbal phrases, their syntax and semantics. Methods: generative grammar and formal semantics. Keywords: constituent structure of VP, semantics verbs, functional projections, telicity, argument structure, event semantics.
- Literature
- bude průběžně zadávána při výuce
- BORER, Hagit. In name only. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, xiv, 310. ISBN 0199263906. info
- BORER, Hagit. The normal course of events. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, xiv, 400. ISBN 0199263922. info
- CHOMSKY, Noam. The minimalist program. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995, 420 s. ISBN 0-262-53128-3. info
- VENDLER, Zeno. Linguistics in philosophy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures
- Assessment methods
- Lectures. Student must write a paper on an assigned topic to successfuly complete this course.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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