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Foundations of Linguistics for Phoneticians - APH200020
Title: Základy jazykovědy pro fonetiky
Guaranteed by: Institute of Phonetics (21-FU)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2012
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:3/0, Ex [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:  
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Starý, CSc.
Is incompatible with: ALINUVOD1, ALINUVOD2
Is interchangeable with: ALINUVOD1, ALINUVOD2
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Annotation -
Last update: FOUVOLIN (24.07.2008)
The course provides the basic notional framework of contemporary linguistic accounts, including descriptions of a specific
language (grammar, dictionaries), and an essential insight into the structure of natural languages. The starting point is
general semiotic frameworks. An integral part is reference to the history of modern linguistics.
Literature - Czech
Last update: FOUVOLIN (23.07.2008)

Dvanáct esejů o jazyce. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1970.

Saussure, F. (1989): Kurs obecné lingvistiky. Praha: Odeon.

Hymes, D. (1974): Foundations in sociolinguistics. An ethnography approach. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Čermák, F. (2001): Jazyk a jazykověda. Praha: Karolinum.

Dolník, J. (1999): Základy lingvistiky. Bratislava: Stimul.

Palek, B. (1989): Základy obecné jazykovědy. Praha: SPN.

Farmer, Ann K. - Demers, Richard A. (1996): A linguistics workbook. London: MIT Press.

Syllabus -
Last update: FOUVOLIN (24.07.2008)

1. The study of linguistics.

2. Sign, semiosis, and a sign system.

3. Types of signs, arbitrariness of the language sign; dimensions of semiosis.

4. Phoneme as a figure. Distinctive feature; phoneme as a bundle of distinctive features; theory of oppositions; segmental vs. suprasegmental units.

5. Morpheme vs. (allo)morph, types of allomorphs. Morpheme types in words, grammatical vs. lexical.

6. Sentence vs. utterance; dependency sentence analysis. Analysis into immediate components; expressing relationships within a sentence. Dependency syntax and syntax of immediate components within a word.

7. Langue vs. parole / competence vs. performance. Syntagmatic vs. paradigmatic relationships. Synchrony vs. diachrony. Language families.

8. Beyond structural linguistics: speech act theory, issues of language politeness.

 
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