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Course, academic year 2026/2027
   
Linguistics - NPFL141
Title: Lingvistika
Form of teaching: seminar
Guaranteed by: Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (32-UFAL)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2023
Duration in semesters: 1
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Maximum number of enrolled students: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Repeated enrollment: 2 / 2 / 2 / 2
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Šárka Zikánová, Ph.D.
RNDr. Jiří Hana, Ph.D.
Class: Informatika Mgr. - Matematická lingvistika
Classification: Informatics > Computer and Formal Linguistics
Annotation -
The course will help students to get familiar with advanced topics in linguistics, especially syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, but also psycholinguistics, stylistics, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics. Most topics will be addressed from the perspective of traditional linguistics and, where appropriate, also from the formal perspective of mathematics and computer science. The course is centered around the discussion of important linguistic papers and books. Students are expected to have basic knowledge of linguistics, for example, as provided by NPFL063 - Introduction to General L
Last update: Mírovský Jiří, RNDr., Ph.D. (15.05.2023)
Course completion requirements -
  • Leading the discussion on selected papers
  • Active participation in discussions, homework (reading of texts)

Last update: Mírovský Jiří, RNDr., Ph.D. (15.05.2023)
Literature -
  • Bhatia & Ritchie (2006): The Handbook of Bilingualism. Blackwell Publishing.
  • Hock (1991): Principles of Historical Linguistics. De Gruyter.
  • Kadmon (2001): Formal Pragmatics. Wiley-Blackwel.
  • Merchant (2012): Ellipsis.
  • Janssen (2006): Montague Semantics.
  • Riemer, N. (2010). Introducing semantics. Cambridge University Press.

Last update: Mírovský Jiří, RNDr., Ph.D. (15.05.2023)
Syllabus -

The course focuses on the following topics:

• Unbounded dependencies

• Structuralism

• Language functions

• Clitics

• Pragmatics and maxims of conversation

• Written and spoken varieties of language

• Historical linguistics - Lexicon

• Montague semantics

• Bilingualism

• Sociolinguistics

• Information structure & Pragmatics

Last update: Mírovský Jiří, RNDr., Ph.D. (25.05.2026)
 
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