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Syntax II - AAA500102

Title:	Syntax II
Guaranteed by:	Department of the English Language and ELT Methodology (21-UAJD)
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts
Actual:	from 2023
Semester:	winter
Points:	0
E-Credits:	5
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:
Additional information:	https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=667
Note:	course can be enrolled in outside the study plan enabled for web enrollment

Guarantor:	PhDr. Gabriela Brůhová, Ph.D.
Is pre-requisite for:	AAA5PP102, AAA5ZK102

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Annotation -

Last update: Mgr. Zuzana Freitas Lopesová (07.11.2017)

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.

Course completion requirements -

Last update: PhDr. Gabriela Brůhová, Ph.D. (25.09.2020)

Credit criteria for ‘online’ winter term 2020/21:

regular online attendance
assigned reading (students are to read a chapter to the relevant topic prior to each seminar session) - to be specified in Moodle
homework (analysis of texts, on-line excercises in moodle, etc.)
final test

Attendance is compulsory, max 3 absences per semester are allowed. Any additional absence during the pandemic must be remedied by additional work by individual arrangement with the course instructor.

Všechny požadavky pro zápočet je nutné splnit do konce zkouškového období akademického roku, ve kterém si student předmět zapsal.

Literature -

Last update: PhDr. Gabriela Brůhová, Ph.D. (15.01.2019)

Aarts, Bas (2011): Oxford Modern English Grammar. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.

Biber, D. et al. (2006) Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. London: Longman.

Dušková, L. et al. (2006) Mluvnice současné angličtiny na pozadí češtiny. Praha: Academia.

Dušková L. (1999) Studies in the English Language II. Chaps. 20, 24, 27, 30, 37; Praha: Karolinum Press

Dušková L. (2015) From Syntax to Text: The Janus Face of Functional Sentence Perspective. Chaps. 10, 11, 12, 23.Praha: Karolinum Press

Halliday M. A. K. & C. M.I.M. Mathiessen (2013) Halliday’s Introduction to Functional Grammar. 4th ed. Routledge

Huddleston, R. and Pullum G. K. (2002) Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Quirk R. et al. (1985) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.

Teaching methods -

Last update: UAAMALAM (06.06.2008)

seminar

Syllabus -

Last update: PhDr. Gabriela Brůhová, Ph.D. (25.09.2020)

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. Syntactic ambiguities and garden path phenomena

11. The semantics of negation

12. Ellipsis

13. Hypersyntax: grammatical devices of textual cohesion