NJII_421B German word order compared to Czech

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2023
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Jaromír Zeman, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jaromír Zeman, CSc.
Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 16:00–17:40 K12 nerezervovat
Prerequisites
knowledge of syntactical concepts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 4/25, only registered: 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
Word-order principles a their interplay in German and Czech, topological units and toplogical fields in German, sentence frame, initial, central and final field, extraposition. Corresponding phenomena in Czech.
Learning outcomes
a reliable command of German word-order rules
Syllabus
  • The theory of German word order (topology), grammatical and communicative principle, sentence frame(verbal and subjunctional frame), topolgical sentence scheme (initial field, central field, final field), theme-rheme structure (functional sentence perspective), word order typology.
Literature
    required literature
  • Hans Altmann / Ute Hofmann: Topologie fürs Examen. Verbstellung, Klammerstruktur, Stellungsfelder, Satzglied- und Wortstellung. 2., überarbeitete und ergänzte Auflage. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-525- 26550-5
  • ZEMAN, Jaromír. Die deutsche Wortstellung. (German word order). Wien: Edition Praesens. Verlag für Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft., 2002, 441 pp. Edition Praresens; Studienbücher; Band 3. ISBN 3-7069-0137-4. info
  • SVOBODA, Aleš. Kapitoly z funkční syntaxe. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1989. info
    recommended literature
  • J. Zeman: Grundlagen der deutschen Wortfolge, 1. Teil, Brno 1987
  • ZEMAN, Jaromír. Wortstellungsschemata im Deutschen und im Tschechischen, Versuch einer vergleichenden Darstellung. In Germanistentreffen BRD - CSFR, Passau, 6.10.-10.10.1992, DAAD Dokumentationen & Materialien. 1992, p. 17-34. 25. info
  • ZEMAN, Jaromír. Zur Gliederung des Mittelfeldes. Bruenner Beitraege zur Germanistik und Nordistik. Brno: Masarykova universita, 1991, vol. 7, p. 19-24. ISSN 1211-4979. info
  • ZEMAN, Jaromír. Grundlagen der deutschen Wortfolge (1. Teil). Brno, 1987. info
  • ZEMAN, Jaromír. Untersuchungen zur Satzgliedstellung im Nebensatz in der deutschen Sprache der Gegenwart. Brno, 1979. info
  • ZEMAN, Jaromír. Untersuchungen zur Satzgliedstellung im Nebensatz in der deutschen Sprache der Gegenwart. Vyd. 1. V Brně: Univerzita J.E. Purkyně, 1979, 124 s. URL info
  • ZEMAN, Jaromír. Die Wortstellung in der wissenschaftlichen Grammatik und in der Schulgrammatik. In Súbor referátov z VIII. Celoštátnej konferencie germanistov a učitel'ov němčiny v Bratislave 1978. Bratislava, 1978, p. 270-276. info
Teaching methods
lectures 1 1/2 hours per week
Assessment methods
colloquium - a short oral exam (about 20 min.) concerning the matter dealt with in the lectures
Language of instruction
German
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022.
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