CJBB166 Time and Space in Language

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jaroslava Vybíralová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 10:00–11:40 C33
Prerequisites
Prior knowledge of linguistic terminology and basic syntax is desirable.
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
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Course objectives
My goal is to investigate the grammar of temporal and spatial expressions. The prominent means of encoding such meanings in Czech are prepositons. Hence, we devote a lot of attention to the grammar of prepositional phrases.
Syllabus
  • 1. Figure/Ground 2. spatial adpositions and their classes 3. measure phrases 4. temporal prepositions 5. measure phrases as prepositional cpmplements 6. adverbs 7. P-drop
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Cinque, Guglielmo. Mapping Spatial PPs. Oxford: OUP.
  • Levinson. Language, space and cognition.
  • Talmy, Leonard. 2000. Towards cognitive semantics. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Teaching methods
Lecture and short student presentations
Assessment methods
The requirement is tocome to classes plus something. That something can bge either a short presentation, or a 5 page term paper.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023.
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