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Introduction to Theoretical Study of English Language and Linguistics - AAA100030

Title:	Lingvistická propedeutika
Guaranteed by:	Ústav anglistiky a amerikanistiky (21-UAA)
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts
Actual:	from 2016
Semester:	winter
Points:	4
E-Credits:	5
Examination process:	winter s.:
	summer s.:
Hours per week, examination:	winter s.:1/0, C [HT] summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity:	winter:unknown / unknown (unknown) summer: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=753

Guarantor:	prof. PhDr. Aleš Klégr PhDr. Gabriela Brůhová, Ph.D. PhDr. Pavlína Šaldová, Ph.D.
Is interchangeable with:	AAA220030, AAA200030

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Annotation -

The course introduces and applies the basic concepts of all structural language levels to English, covering its current state
and status, social and regional variation, grammar, lexis, sound and writing systems.
The lecture provides a survey of the history of English linguistic studies in Czechoslovakia and the basics of the linguistic
description of English.
The seminar provides additional material with practical exercises to exemplify and develop topics covered in the lecture.

Last update: UAAMALAM (27.01.2009)

Literature -

Crystal, D., The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, 1995

Crystal, D., The English Lanaguage, Penguin Books, 1990

?ermák, F., Jazyk a jazykov?da, 1994

Dušková, L., Mluvnice sou?asné angli?tiny na pozadí ?eštiny, 1994

Greenbaum S., Quirk R., A Student's Grammar of the English Language, 1990

Leech G., Introducing English Grammar, 1992

MacArthur T., The Oxford Companion to the English Language, 1996

Mathesius V., Obsahový rozbor sou?asné angli?tiny na základ? obecn? lingvistickém, 1961

Nosek, J., Emmerová, J., Úvod do studia anglického jazyka (skripta), 1965

Nosek, J., Grafika moderní angli?tiny, 1991

Roach P., English Phonetics and Phonology, 1996

Trudgill, P., J. Hannah, J., International English. A Guide to Varieties of Standard English, 1994

Vachek J., Prolegomena k d?jinám pražské školy jazykov?dné, 1999

Last update: UAAMALAM (27.01.2009)

Teaching methods -

lecture and seminar

Last update: UAAMALAM (27.01.2009)

Syllabus -

1. Introduction to the studies of the English language; the history of English linguistic studies in Czechoslovakia ? the Czech Republic, Prague Linguistic Circle

2. Genetic and structural classification of languages

3. Varieties of English (dialects, registes)

4. Levels of description - grammatical level: English morphology (word classes)

5. Syntactic level - English clause elements, phrase level, sentence structure

6. Lexical level - morphemic level, structure of English lexicon

7. Word formation - derivation, composition, back-formation, blending, shortening, conversion

8. Lexical semantics - paradigmatic (synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, meronymy) and syntagmatic relations (collocation)

9. Phonological level - phonology, phoneme, allophone, inventory of English vowels and consonants, accentology - word stress

10. Spoken and written English - English orthography and punctuation

11. English graphology - grapheme-phoneme relation; system of graphemes, digraphs, mute consonants

12. English graphology -phoneme-grapheme relation; punctuation

13. Lexicographic description of English

Last update: UAAMALAM (27.01.2009)