RSb018 Normative Grammar II – Syntax

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Olga Berger, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Olga Berger, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Olga Berger, Ph.D.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Olga Berger, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
RSb017 Normative Grammar I
For students who have completed “The Normative Grammar I”.
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
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to give a detailed overview of the Russian syntax and to deepen students’ theoretical knowledge, to apply the theoretical knowledge when analysing the text.
Learning outcomes
After finishing the course, the student should be able:
- to define the syntactic terms;
- to apply these terms in practice and to draw the appropriate conclusion based on observed phenomena while analysing certain texts and exercises;
- to deduce and to explain the patterns of syntactic phenomena and to determine the syntactic abnormalities;
- to give appropriate arguments to prove his observations and, eventually, to offer a solution according to standard.
Syllabus
  • 1. The Syntax as a Part of Grammar.
  • 2. The Russian and the Czech Syntactic Tradition: Differences and Similarities. The Subject of Syntax from Different Linguists’ Points of View.
  • 3. Parataxis and Hypotaxis.
  • 4. Collocation. The Classification of Collocations.
  • 5. Sentence. Classification of Sentences according to the Communication Function. Extended and Unextended Sentences. Two-Membered and One-Membered Sentence. Elliptical Sentence. Incomplete Sentence. The Inner Structure of a Sentence.
  • 6. Parts of Sentence. Subject, Predicate, Concord of Subject and Predicate.
  • 7. Secondary Parts of Sentence.
  • 8. Simple Sentence. The Classification of Simple Sentences. Structural Types of Simple Sentences.
  • 9. Compound Sentence (Parataxis). The Classification.
  • 10. Compound Sentence (Hypotaxis). The Classification.
  • 11. Asyndetic Compound Sentence, the Problem of Their Classification.
  • 12. The Word Order in Russian.
  • 13. Text Syntax.
Literature
  • Žaža, S.: Ruština a čeština v porovnávacím pohledu. MU, Brno 1999.
  • ADAMEC, Přemysl. Russkij sintaksis v sopostavlenii s češskim. Edited by Miloslav Kubík. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1983, 282 s. info
  • Russkaja grammatika. Edited by Natalija Jul‘jevna Švedova. Moskva: Nauka, 1980, 709 s. info
  • BAUER, Jaroslav, Roman MRÁZEK and Stanislav ŽAŽA. Příruční mluvnice ruštiny. 3. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1979, 521 s. info
  • KOPECKIJ, Leontij Vasil‘jevič. Russkij jazyk v sisteme nabljudenij i upražnenij :posobije dlja slušatelej pedagogičeskich fakultetov. 3. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1979, 532 s. URL info
  • KUBÍK, Miloslav, Přemysl ADAMEC and Vladimír HRABĚ. Praktičeskij kurs sintaksisa russkogo jazyka. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1977, 252 s. info
  • BELOŠAPKOVA, Vera Arsen‘jevna. Sovremennyj russkij jazyk. Moskva: Vysšaja škola, 1977, 247 s. info
  • VALGINA, Nina Sergejevna. Sintaksis sovremennogo russkogo jazyka. Moskva: Vysšaja škola, 1973, 422 s. info
Teaching methods
Lecture: exposition and definitions of basic terms and their exemplification on different types of specific texts, proceeding from diverse registers.
Seminar: application of theoretical knowledge on authentic texts.
Assessment methods
The exam has two parts (written and oral). The written part includes the translation of Russian text into Czech and the Czech into Russian. The oral exam consists of reading, translating, syntactic analyses of the text extract and the answer on theoretical questions. The emphasis is put on the good knowledge of syntactic theory that is demonstrated on certain language material.
Language of instruction
Russian
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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