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Syntax II - AAA300102

Title:	Syntax II
Guaranteed by:	Department of the English Language and ELT Methodology (21-UAJD)
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts
Actual:	from 2015
Semester:	winter
Points:	2
E-Credits:	4
Examination process:	winter s.:
Hours per week, examination:	winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity:	unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
Key competences:
State of the course:	not taught
Language:	Czech
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time
Level:
Is provided by:	AAA500102

Guarantor:	prof. doc. PhDr. Libuše Dušková, DrSc.

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Annotation

Last update: BRUHOVA/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (23.09.2010)

OBJECTIVES
An advanced course in syntax resuming in more detail topics covered only in essentials in Syntax I (syntax of the nonfinite verb forms, multiple sentence) and introducing new topics: the semantics of negation, word order as a polyfunctional device, functional sentence perspective, syntactic discontinuities, focusing constructions, syntactic ambiguities, garden path phenomena, and grammatical devices of hypersyntax.

Literature -

Last update: BRUHOVA/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (23.09.2010)

Literature:

(Parts of) R. Quirk et al., A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language;

(Parts of) R. Huddleston and G. J. Pullum, Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

L.Dušková et al., Mluvnice současné angličtiny na pozadí češtiny (passages on the treated points)

L. Dušková, Studies in the English Language II, Chaps. 20, 24, 27, 30, 37; Prague Linguistic Circle Papers, Vol. 3 (1999), 249-261, Vol. 4. (2002, 251-261)

References to further literature are to be found in these books.

Teaching methods -

Last update: BRUHOVA/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (23.09.2010)

seminar

Syllabus -

Last update: BRUHOVA/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (23.09.2010)

Syntax II

Subject: Syntax II

2 units per week

Teacher: Dušková

An advanced course in syntax resuming in more detail topics covered only in essentials in Syntax I (syntax of the nonfinite verb forms, multiple sentence) and introducing new topics: the semantics of negation, word order as a polyfunctional device, functional sentence perspective, syntactic discontinuities, focusing constructions, syntactic ambiguities, garden path phenomena, and grammatical devices of hypersyntax.

1.Syntax of the infinitive (constructions with the underlying subject function; infinitive as subject complement

2.Syntax of the infinitive (infinitive in the function of object, adverbial and postmodification)

3. Syntax of the ing-form

4. Multiple sentence: coordination vs. subordination (levels of syntactic dependence)

5. Multiple sentence (adjunct, disjunct and conjunct functions of adverbial clauses; different functions of clauses introduced by the same subordinator) 6. Word order as a polyfunctional device: grammatical factor, semantic factor, and a means of expressing emotion and emphasis.

7. Word order (linear modification) as a factor of functional sentence perspective; other factors of functional sentence perspective

8. Cleft sentence

9. Structural discontinuities

10. The semantics of negation

11. Syntactic ambiguities and garden path phenomena

12. Ellipsis13. Hypersyntax: grammatical devices of textual cohesion

Requirements: regular attendance and work in the seminar + seminar paper (syntactic analysis of examples of the points treated in the seminar) Assessment: credit-optional subject of the examination in Special Programme English Language and LinguisticsLiterature