OJD15 Advanced syntax and semantics

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2013
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Abstract
At the end of the course students should be able to analyse infinitive phrases in Czech, to compare this analysis within various frames of formal grammar and to demonstrate that the infinitive phrase in syntax carries various proportions of verbal structure: VP, vP, TP.
Key topics
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.
Study resources and literature
  • Postal, P. (1974): On Raising. Cambridge, Mass
  • Wurmbrand, S. (2001): Infinitives: Restructuring and Clause Structure.
  • Landau,I. (2000): Elements of Control: Structure and Meaning in
  • Petter, M. (1998): Getting PRO under Control: a Syntactic Analysis of
  • Růžička, R. (1999): Control in Grammar and Pragmatics: a
  • Davies, W. D. - Dubinsky, S. (2004): The Grammar of Raising and Control.
  • Medová, L. (2000): Transparency Phenomena in Czech Syntax. MA Diss.,
Approaches, practices, and methods used in teaching
theory, drills, discussion
Method of verifying learning outcomes and course completion requirements
credit
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Autumn 2013, Spring 2014, Autumn 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021.
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