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The course will extend the student’s knowledge of the valency of verbs, but will also deal with the valency of nouns, adjectives and adverbs. It introduces the tools and resources useful for studying valency (valency dictionaries, specialized databases, and syntactically annotated corpora), and it contrasts various theoretical approaches to valency (or argument structure) and discusses the results of various empirical studies of valency (including psycho- and neurolinguistic studies as well as studies of language acquisition). Various specific issues will be addressed, including valency alternations and the interaction of valency and morphology. The course will also include practical activities and exercised based mainly on corpus data.
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Seminář prohloubí znalosti studentů o valenci sloves, ale seznámí je i s problematikou valence substantiv, adjektiv a adverbií. Studenti se seznámí s nástroji a zdroji pro studium valence (valenční slovníky, specializované databáze, syntakticky anotované korpusy), s různými teoretickými přístupy k valenci a se základními poznatky o empirickém výzkumu valence (včetně výzkumu v psycholingvistice, osvojování jazyka a neurolingvistice). Pozornost bude věnována i vybraným dílčím problémům, např. alternacím valenčních rámců, interakci valence a slovotvorby apod. Důležitou součástí semináře budou i praktické aktivity orientované na práci s daty.
Course completion requirements -
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attendance, required reading, homework assignments, 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.
winter semester 2020/2021 (given the pandemic): attendance of the online sessions, assignments and exercises on Moodle, required reading, midterm "test" on Moodle & final "test" on Moodle
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docházka, průběžná četba, průběžné úkoly, závěrečný písemný test
Účast je povinná, povoleny jsou tři absence za semestr. Větší počet absencí v průběhu pandemických opatření musí být nahrazen prací navíc individuálně zadávanou vyučujícím.
zimní semestr 2020/2021 (vzhledem k pandemické situaci): účast na online hodinách, průběžné úkoly a cvičení na Moodlu, průběžná četba, shrnující cvičení na moodlu v polovině semestru a na jeho konci
Literature -
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Required reading:
Week 3: Panevová, J. (1999): Valence a jejíuniverzální a specificképrojevy. Čeština – univerzália a specifika 1, 29–37. Brno.
Week 4: Fillmore, C. (1970): The Grammar of Hitting and Breaking. In: R. Jacobs & P. Rosenbaum (eds.), Readings in English Transformational Grammar, 120–133. Washington: Georgetown University Press. and Levin, B. (1993): English Verb Classes and Alternations. A Preliminary Investigation. Chicago & London: The University of Chicaho Press; pages 1–12.
Week 5: Goldberg, A. E. (2003): Constructions: A new theoretical approach to language. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7(5): 219–224.
Week 6: Hilpert, M. (2014): Construction Grammar and its Application to English. Edinburgh University Press; pages 45–47. andPerek, F. (2015): Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar. John Benjamins Publishing Company; pages 145–151.
Week 7: Herbst, T. (1988): A valency model for nouns in English. Journal of Linguistics 24(2): 265–301.
Week 8: Aikhenvald, A. (2015): The Art of Grammar. A Practical Guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press; pages 141–147.
Week 9: choose Denison, D. (2009): Argument structure. In: G. Rohdenburg & J. Schlüter (eds.), One Language, Two Grammars? Differences between British and American English, 149–165. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. orRohdenburg, G. (2009): Reflexive structures. In: G. Rohdenburg & J. Schlüter (eds.), One Language, Two Grammars? Differences between British and American English, 166–181. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Week 10: Casenhiser, D. M. & G. M. L. Bencini (2015): Argument structure constructions. In: E. Dąbrowska & D. Divjak (eds.), Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, 579–594. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.
Week 11: Saicová Římalová, L. (2018): Is there such a thing as nonverbal valency? Prace Filologiczne 72: 321–331.
Recommended reading:
Week 7:
Mackenzie, J. L. (1997): Nouns are avalent – and nominalizations too. In: K. van Durme (ed.), The Valency of Nouns, 89–118. Odense: Odense University Press.
Spevak, O. (2014): Noun valency in Latin. In: O. Spevak (ed.), Noun Valency, 183–210. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Week 9:
Deshors, S. C. & S. Th. Gries (2016): Profiling verb complementation constructions across New Englishes. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 21(2): 192–218.
Thompson, S. A. & P. J. Hopper (2001): Transitivity, clause structure, and argument structure: Evidence from conversation. In: J. Bybee & P. Hopper (eds.), Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure, 27–60. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Others
Ágel, V. et al., eds. (2003): Dependenz und Valenz. Ein internationales Handbuch der zeitgenössischen Forschung. Dependency and Valency: An International Handbook of Contemporary Research, Vol. 1. Walter de Gruyter.
Aikhenvald, A. (2015): The Art of Grammar. A Practical Guide. Oxford University Press.
Allerton, D. J. (2006): Valency Grammar. In: K. Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, Vol. 13, 301–314. Elsevier.
Alsina, A. (2006): Argument Structure. In: K. Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, Vol. 1, 461–468. Elsevier.
Bybee, J. & P. Hopper, eds. (2001): Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure. John Benjamins.
Chomsky, N. (1965): Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. MIT Press.
Chomsky, N. (1972): Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar. Mouton.
de Almeida, R. G. & C. Manouilidou, eds. (2015): Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing. Springer.
Goldberg, A. E. (1995): Constructions. A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure. The University of Chicago Press.
Goldberg, A. E. (2006): Constructions at Work. Oxford University Press.
Goldberg, A. E. (2019): Explain Me This. Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions. Princeton University Press.
Grimshaw, J. (1990): Argument Structure. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Herbst, T. & K. Götz-Votteler, eds. (2007): Valency: Theoretical, Descriptive and Cognitive Issues. Mouton de Gruyter.
Malchukov, A. & A. Spencer, eds. (2009): The Oxford Handbook of Case. Oxford University Press.
Müller, P. O., I. Ohnheiser, S. Olsen & F. Rainer, eds. (2015): Word-Formation. An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe, Vol. 2. De Gruyter Mouton.
Skwarska, K. & E. Kaczmarska, eds. (2016): Výzkum slovesné valence ve slovanských zemích. Slovanský ústav AV ČR.
Spevak, O., ed. (2014): Noun Valency. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Taylor, J. R. (2012): The Mental Corpus. Oxford University Press.
Tutunjian, D. & J. E. Boland (2008): Do we need a distinction between arguments and adjuncts? Evidence from psycholinguistic studies of comprehension. Language and Linguistics Compass 1: 631–646.
Van Valin, R. D. & R. J. LaPolla (1997): Syntax, Structure, Meaning and Function. Cambridge University Press.
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Povinná četba:
Week 3: Panevová, J. (1999): Valence a jejíuniverzální a specificképrojevy. Čeština – univerzália a specifika1, 29–37. Brno.
Week 4: Fillmore, C. (1970): The Grammar of Hitting and Breaking. In: R. Jacobs & P. Rosenbaum (eds.), Readings in English Transformational Grammar, 120–133. Washington: Georgetown University Press. and Levin, B. (1993): English Verb Classes and Alternations. A Preliminary Investigation. Chicago & London: The University of Chicaho Press; pages 1–12.
Week 5: Goldberg, A. E. (2003): Constructions: A new theoretical approach to language. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7(5): 219–224.
Week 6: Hilpert, M. (2014): Construction Grammar and its Application to English. Edinburgh University Press; pages 45–47. andPerek, F. (2015): Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar. John Benjamins Publishing Company; pages 145–151.
Week 7: Herbst, T. (1988): A valency model for nouns in English. Journal of Linguistics 24(2): 265–301.
Week 8: Aikhenvald, A. (2015): The Art of Grammar. A Practical Guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press; pages 141–147.
Week 9: choose Denison, D. (2009): Argument structure. In: G. Rohdenburg & J. Schlüter (eds.), One Language, Two Grammars? Differences between British and American English, 149–165. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. orRohdenburg, G. (2009): Reflexive structures. In: G. Rohdenburg & J. Schlüter (eds.), One Language, Two Grammars? Differences between British and American English, 166–181. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Week 10: Casenhiser, D. M. & G. M. L. Bencini (2015): Argument structure constructions. In: E. Dąbrowska & D. Divjak (eds.), Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, 579–594. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.
Week 11: Saicová Římalová, L. (2018): Is there such a thing as nonverbal valency? Prace Filologiczne 72: 321–331.
Doporučená četba:
Week 7:
Mackenzie, J. L. (1997): Nouns are avalent – and nominalizations too. In: K. van Durme (ed.), The Valency of Nouns, 89–118. Odense: Odense University Press.
Spevak, O. (2014): Noun valency in Latin. In: O. Spevak (ed.), Noun Valency, 183–210. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Week 9:
Deshors, S. C. & S. Th. Gries (2016): Profiling verb complementation constructions across New Englishes. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 21(2): 192–218.
Thompson, S. A. & P. J. Hopper (2001): Transitivity, clause structure, and argument structure: Evidence from conversation. In: J. Bybee & P. Hopper (eds.), Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure, 27–60. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Doplňková četba:
Ágel, V. et al., eds. (2003): Dependenz und Valenz. Ein internationales Handbuch der zeitgenössischen Forschung. Dependency and Valency: An International Handbook of Contemporary Research, Vol. 1. Walter de Gruyter.
Aikhenvald, A. (2015): The Art of Grammar. A Practical Guide. Oxford University Press.
Allerton, D. J. (2006): Valency Grammar. In: K. Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, Vol. 13, 301–314. Elsevier.
Alsina, A. (2006): Argument Structure. In: K. Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, Vol. 1, 461–468. Elsevier.
Bybee, J. & P. Hopper, eds. (2001): Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure. John Benjamins.
Chomsky, N. (1965): Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. MIT Press.
Chomsky, N. (1972): Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar. Mouton.
de Almeida, R. G. & C. Manouilidou, eds. (2015): Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing. Springer.
Goldberg, A. E. (1995): Constructions. A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure. The University of Chicago Press.
Goldberg, A. E. (2006): Constructions at Work. Oxford University Press.
Goldberg, A. E. (2019): Explain Me This. Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions. Princeton University Press.
Grimshaw, J. (1990): Argument Structure. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Herbst, T. & K. Götz-Votteler, eds. (2007): Valency: Theoretical, Descriptive and Cognitive Issues. Mouton de Gruyter.
Malchukov, A. & A. Spencer, eds. (2009): The Oxford Handbook of Case. Oxford University Press.
Müller, P. O., I. Ohnheiser, S. Olsen & F. Rainer, eds. (2015): Word-Formation. An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe, Vol. 2. De Gruyter Mouton.
Skwarska, K. & E. Kaczmarska, eds. (2016): Výzkum slovesné valence ve slovanských zemích. Slovanský ústav AV ČR.
Spevak, O., ed. (2014): Noun Valency. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Taylor, J. R. (2012): The Mental Corpus. Oxford University Press.
Tutunjian, D. & J. E. Boland (2008): Do we need a distinction between arguments and adjuncts? Evidence from psycholinguistic studies of comprehension. Language and Linguistics Compass 1: 631–646.
Van Valin, R. D. & R. J. LaPolla (1997): Syntax, Structure, Meaning and Function. Cambridge University Press.
Syllabus
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October 7: Introduction & overview
October 14: Lexicalist approaches I
overview of approaches;
linking / mapping;
transparency principles;
thematic role hierarchies
October 21: Lexicalist approaches II: Functional Generative Description
Functional Generative Description;
valency frames;
valency dictionaries;
the CzEngClass project
November 4: Verb classes and alternations I
November 11: Constructionist approaches
arguments against lexicalist accounts;
argument structure constructions
November 18: Verb classes and alternations II
argument structure competition;
statistical preemption;
frequency & argument structure
November 25: Morphology & valency I
word formation & argument structure;
nominalization & noun valency;
adjective & adverb valency
December 2: Morphology & valency II
voice & diatheses;
valency-changing derivations;
cross-linguistic perspectives
December 9: Empirical perspectives on valency I
the variability of valency across registers;
the variability of valency across English dialects;
evidence from conversation
December 16: Empirical perspectives on valency II
the acquisition of argument structure constructions;
priming studies of argument structure;
neuroimaging studies of argument structure
January 6: Empirical perspectives on valency III
second language acquisition and valency;
gesture and valency
Entry requirements -
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a) basic knowledge of English syntax (at a level corresponding to the compulsory BA course on syntax);
b) ideally (not necessarily) basic knowledge of linguistic theory (at a level corresponding to the compulsory MA course Modern linguistic descriptions of English, or a similar course)
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a) základní orientace v syntaxi na úrovni odpovídající bakalářskému předmětu Anglická mluvnice: syntax;
b) ideálně (ne nutně) základní orientace v lingvistické teorii na úrovni odpovídající magisterskému předmětu Moderní lingvistické popisy angličtiny (nebo odpovídajícímu bohemistickému či obecnělingvistickému předmětu)
