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Syntax - OPBA4A052A
Title: Syntax
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2023
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 6
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/3, C+Ex [HT]
Extent per academic year: 0 [hours]
Capacity: 100 / 180 (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=15092
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Renata Pípalová, CSc.
doc. PhDr. Markéta Malá, Ph.D.
Mgr. Jana Richterová, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Markéta Malá, Ph.D.
PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D.
Pre-requisite : OPBA4A012A, OPBA4A021A, OPBA4A023A
Is pre-requisite for: OPBA4A056A
Annotation -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Markéta Malá, Ph.D. (07.09.2023)
Syntax follows up the courses of Morphology and Lexicology. It introduces the students to the functional approach to present-day English syntax against the background of the syntactic system of Czech. The lecture focuses on the theoretical description of English syntax; the seminars practice and deepen the students’ command of the phenomena dealt with in the lecture. The course comprises a lecture and two seminars. Students are required to attend one short (45 minutes) and one long (90 minutes) seminar simultaneously. Topics: 1. Sentence types and discourse functions. 2. Verb valency, clause patterns. Identifying clause elements and their realization forms (phrases). Constitutive / non-constitutive clause elements. Obligatory / Optional clause elements (including modifiers and apposition). Multiple clause elements. 3. Semantic roles of clause elements (the subject, object, complements). 4. The adverbial – integration in the sentence structure, realization forms, semantic roles. 5. Negation. 6. Complex and compound sentence. Typology of dependent clauses. Nominal content clauses. Relative clauses. Adverbial clauses. 7. Complex condensation. The infinitive, gerund, participle. 8. The multiple (complex-compound) sentence. 9. Word order – grammatical, semantic, FSP (and other) principles. 10. Functional sentence perspective.
Descriptors -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Markéta Malá, Ph.D. (07.09.2023)

Individual study of secondary literature: 20 hours

Working with study materials: 30 hours

Seminar paper: 12 hours

Credit-test oriented study: 10 hours

Specific preparation for the examination, including the examination: 25 hours

Literature -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Markéta Malá, Ph.D. (07.09.2023)

ADAM, Martin. A Handbook of Functional Sentence Perspective (FSP in Theory and Practice) with Key. 2. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2008. ISBN 978-80-210-4605-4.

BIBER, Douglas, CONRAD, Susan, LEECH, Geoffrey. Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English. 5th ed. Harlow: Longman, 2006. ISBN 0-582-23726-2.

BIBER, Douglas, JOHANSSON, Stig, LEECH, Geoffrey, CONRAD, Susan, FINEGAN, Edward. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Harlow: Longman, 1999. ISBN 058223725-4.

CARTER, Ronald, McCARTHY, Michael. Cambridge Grammar of English. A Comprehensive Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.  ISBN 0-521-67439-5.

DUŠKOVÁ, Libuše. Syntax současné angličtiny. Sbírka textů a příkladů k syntaktickému rozboru. 3. vydání. Praha: Karolinum, 2016. ISBN 9788024622699.

DUŠKOVÁ, Libuše. a kol. Mluvnice současné angličtiny na pozadí češtiny. 4. vydání. Praha: Academia, 2012. ISBN 978-80-200-2211-0.

GREENBAUM, Sidney, QUIRK, Randolph. A Student’s Grammar of the English language. Harlow: Longman, 1990. ISBN 0-582-05971-2.

HUDDLESTON, Rodney, PULLUM, Geoffrey K. A Student’s Introduction to English Grammar. 1st ed. Cambridge: CUP, 2005. ISBN 978-0-521-61288-3.

HUDDLESTON, R., PULLUM, G. K. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: CUP, 2002. ISBN: 9780521431460.

QUIRK, Randolph, GREENBAUM, Sidney, LEECH, Geoffrey, SVARTVIK, Jan. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman, 1985.ISBN-13: 978-0582517349.

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Markéta Malá, Ph.D. (07.09.2023)

 

1.     Sentence types and discourse functions.

2.     Verb valency, clause patterns. Identifying clause elements and their realization forms (phrases). Constitutive / non-constitutive clause elements. Obligatory / Optional clause elements (including modifiers and apposition). Multiple clause elements.

3.     Semantic roles of clause elements (the subject, object, complements).

4.     The adverbial – integration in the sentence structure, realization forms, semantic roles.

5.     Negation. Complex analysis of the sentence.

6.     Complex and compound sentence. Typology of dependent clauses. Nominal content clauses.

7.     Relative clauses. Adverbial clauses.

8.     Complex condensation. The infinitive, gerund, participle.

9.     Complex analysis of the multiple sentence.

10.  Word order – grammatical, semantic, FSP (and other) principles.

11.  Functional sentence perspective.

Course completion requirements -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Markéta Malá, Ph.D. (07.09.2023)

The course comprises a lecture and two seminars. Students are required to attend one short (45 minutes) and one long (90 minutes) seminar simultaneously. 

'zápočet' + examination

'Zápočet' requirements:

1. active participation in the seminars throughout the semester

2. witten test covering the topics dealt with in the seminar. Minimum limit is 70% points. One re-sit possible.

3. seminar paper - syntactic analysis of 6-8 phenomena in a text

 

Examination:

·       Only the students who have acquired 'zápočet' can take the examination.

·       The examination comprises a written test and an oral part. In order to take the oral part, the student has to pass the written part (i.e. score 70% points at least). Students who fail the written part cannot proceed to the oral part, and the failed attempt counts as 'fail' (4) in SIS. Two re-sits are possible. 

 
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