CJc517 The Czech Language Syntax 1

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
0/0/.8. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Ivana Kolářová, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Ivana Kolářová, CSc.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Petra Rozbořilová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
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 subject focused to the acquisition of basic syntactic terminology and the gradual analysis of syntactic units. Introductory seminars are focused on the classification of statements according to the attitude of the speaker and the mode of the statement.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student shall:
- know the syntactic terminology and the terminology of current syntactic theories regarding the statement and the simple sentence;
- be able to explain the difference in the concept of building a simple sentence in "traditional" analytical syntax and valence syntax;
- be able to do complex sentence analysis including creating graphic representation.
Syllabus
  • 1st block: Sentence and statement; notification modality. The communication function of the statement. The propositional content of the statement. Attitudinal, certain and voluntary modality. Language means of their expression: lexical (particles, interjections), grammatical (verb categories), intonation.
  • 2nd block: Simple sentence and its structure. Sentential constituents and their expression by parts of speech. Subject and predicate. Object, adverbial, attribute, verbal attribute. Special forms of expression of sentential constituents. Recommended procedure for identification of the sentential constituents.
  • 3rd block: Syntactic relations (coordination, subordination, apposition, predication), linguistic means of their expression. Complex analysis of simple sentences using the methods of analytical syntax (sentential constituents, semantic and formal syntactic relations).
  • 4th block: The verb and its valence. Classification of sentence structures according to the valence potential of the predicate verb. Sentential constiuents valence and facultative. Sentential structure with predicate/predicative verbs with one, two or three valence.
  • 5th block: Subject and non-subject sentences. Verbs with zero valence. Subjectless sentences according to semantic, according to the type of a certain verb form. Verbal valence in subjectless sentences. Sentence equivalents according to their sentential member. Deviations from regular syntactic structure. Word order. Functional sentence perspective.
Literature
    required literature
  • KARLÍK, Petr, Marek NEKULA and Zdenka RUSÍNOVÁ. Příruční mluvnice češtiny. [Brno]: Masarykova univerzita. Středisko pro pomoc studentům se specifickými nároky, 2001, 1 online. URL info
    recommended literature
  • ŠTÍCHA, František a kol. Akademická gramatika spisovné češtiny. 1st ed. Praha: Academia, 2013, 974 pp. ISBN 978-80-200-2205-9. info
  • ČECHOVÁ, Marie, Miloš DOKULIL, Zdeněk HLAVSA, Josef HRBÁČEK and Zdeňka HRUŠKOVÁ. Čeština - řeč a jazyk. 3., rozšířené a upraven. Praha: SPN - pedagogické nakladatelství, a. s., 2011, 442 stran. ISBN 9788072354139. info
  • GREPL, Miroslav and Petr KARLÍK. Skladba češtiny. Olomouc: Votobia, 1998, 503 s. ISBN 80-7198-281-4. info
Teaching methods
- Controlled dialogue;
- problem methods, methods of the critical thinking (brainstorming, "map" of thinking...);
- text analysis, synthesis;
- individual study hours.
Assessment methods
To finish the course successfully the student has to elaborate pass written exercises of syntax testing his theoretical and practical knowledges. The excercises include theme of the sentence analysis (see syllabus and literature). To be successful the student has to manage 75 % of the work. The excercises include communicative function of the utterance, sentence analysis (sentence constituents, relations in the sentence). To gain the credit the student has to hand in the work no later than one week before the end of the semester.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 10 hodin v semestru.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2023, recent)
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