The Fundaments of Czech Grammar - OEBCC1704Z

• Title: The Fundaments of Czech Grammar
• Guaranteed by: Katedra českého jazyka (41-KCJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: both
• E-Credits: 5
• Hours per week, examination: 0/1, MC [HT]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / 5 (5); summer:unknown / unknown (5)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan; can be fulfilled in the future; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Pavla Chejnová, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Pavla Chejnová, Ph.D.; PhDr. Zuzana Wildová, Ph.D.
• Class: Předměty v angličtině - bc.

Annotation

English

The course deals with the fundaments of Czech grammar. Czech language from synchronic and diachronic perspective, Czech language as a West Slavonic language, Czech language grammar system. Stratification linguistics.

Last update: Chejnová Pavla, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (15.01.2025)

Czech

Kurs je zaměřen na základy české gramatiky. Český jazyk ze synchronní i diachronní perspektivy. Systém české gramatiky. Čeština z pohledu stratifikační lingvistiky.

Last update: Chejnová Pavla, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (15.01.2025)

Course completion requirements

Presentation of one of the topics covered in the seminar. Attendance. 

Last update: Chejnová Pavla, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (15.01.2025)

Literature

Recommended Literature:

HOLÁ, L. 2007: Czech Grammar in a Nutshell. Prague: Akropolis.
HŮRKOVÁ, J. 1995: Česká výslovnostní norma. Prague: Scientia.
KARLÍK, P. - NEKULA, M. - RUSÍNOVÁ, Z. Eds. 2008: Příruční mluvnice češtiny. Prague: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny.
Pravidla českého pravopisu a tvarosloví. after 1993.
SGALL, P. et al. 1992: Variation in Language: Code switching in Czech as a challenge for sociolinguistics. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Slovník spisovné češtiny pro školu a veřejnost. Prague: Academia, 2006.
VACHEK, J. 2003: Dictionary of the Prague School of Linguistics. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
www.locallingo.com/czech/grammar/index.html

Last update: Chejnová Pavla, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (15.01.2025)

Syllabus

 

1. Czech as a West Slavonic language. The genealogical classification of languages. Czech language from a diachronic perspective.

2. Czech as an inflectional language. Skalička’s typology of languages. The contrast between synthetic language (Czech) and analytic language (English).

3. Fundaments of Czech phonetics and phonology. Practical exercises in Czech pronunciation. Czech prosody.

4. Czech orthography. Correlation between graphemes and phonemes.

5. Czech morphology. Grammatical system. Nominal morphology. The grammatical category of case, grammatical gender, animacy, and number.

6. Czech morphology. Grammatical system. Verbal morphology. The grammatical category of person, number, tense, mood, and aspect.

7. Czech syntax. Czech word order. Principles of functional sentence perspective.

8. Principles of word formation. Derivational morphology. Abbreviation. Composition. Foreign words in Czech. Adaptation of foreign words.

9. Czech sociolinguistic characteristics. Diglossia. Common Czech, inter-dialects, dialects, sociolects.

10. Prague Linguistic Circle. Prominent personalities of Czech linguistics. International influence.

11. Practical exercises depending on the Czech language knowledge.

12. Student presentations, discussion, evaluation and assessment.

Last update: Chejnová Pavla, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (15.01.2025)