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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Course content: 01) Introduction. Recommended reading. A brief overview of Proto-Slavic syntax. 02) Types of sentences in Old Czech. 03) Negation in Old Czech. 04) Old Czech word order. 05) Predicate. Types of predicate. Valency in Old Czech, comparison with Modern Czech, developmental trends. 06) Subject. Subject-verb agreement + connectives. 07) Subject-predicate agreement; agreement as an indicator of syntactic relationship. 08) Attribute. Attributive construction + linking elements. 09) Object in Old Czech. 10) Adverbial phrases in Old Czech. 11) Complements in Old Czech. Humanistic Syntax I. 12) Humanistic Syntax II. The influence of Latin (classical/medieval) on the Czech language.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Demonstration
- Homework for Teaching
- 24 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The seminar aims to introduce students to the development of sentence positions (sentence constituents) and basic syntactic relationships between the period when the oldest Czech texts were written (the late 13th century) and the beginning of the so-called National Revival, when the modern Czech language emerged. With regard to word positions, the focus will be on the morphosyntactic perspective, namely the question of which forms could have appeared in individual syntactic positions.
Students will acquire the ability to carry out diachronic sentence analysis, which will enable them to better understand the ways in which the system of Czech syntactic relations and positions developed before reaching its current form.
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Prerequisites
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It is recommended that students complete the course 'Historical Grammar of the Czech Language' as a prerequisite.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Seminar Work
Students will prepare a presentation on a specified syntactic topic. The presentation will last approximately 30 minutes. It will include an introduction to the phenomenon under consideration and examples of this phenomenon from older Czech texts. Students are also expected to keep up to date with the theoretical aspects of the topics covered by reading the assigned sections of specialist literature.
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Recommended literature
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Běličová, Sedláček. Slovanské souvětí. Praha. 1990.
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Gebauer. Historická mluvnice jazyka českého IV. Praha. 1929.
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Kosek. Historická mluvnice češtiny I. Brno. 2014.
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Kosek. Spojovací prostředky v češtině období baroka. Ostrava. 2003.
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Trávníček. Historická mluvnice česká IV. Skladba. Praha. 1956.
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