Course: Syntax

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Course title Syntax
Course code KBH/SYN
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 2
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech, English
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Svobodová Jindřiška, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Basic syntactical unit, basic syntactical relations, functions of verb as the central element of sentence, verbal valency and intention, basic sentence structure, sentence patterns, transformations, three levels of syntax, traditional sentence members and the complex characteristics of the individual sentence positions, clause and sentence, parataxis and hypotaxis, apposition relation, basic terms of the functional sentence perspective, phenomena of the so called hypersyntax.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Methods of Written Work
Learning outcomes
Syntactic analysis is based on concept of the valence syntax. The analysis is aimed to identification of the basic complement and free additions.
Having attended the lectures students are ready for syntactical analysis of text, they are ready to uncover the rules of text composition and alone are able to produce text according to these rules.
Prerequisites
Subject is taught in the 2nd period of bachelor programme, it is preferred to attend it after passing subject Morphology.
KBH/MORF
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KBH/MORFO and KBH/SYNS

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam

Active participation in the lectures, writing an independent scientific work concerning a topic from the lectures, successful passing of the written test and oral exam.
Recommended literature
  • Bauer, J. ? Grepl, M. (1980). Skladba spisovné češtiny. Praha.
  • Běličová, H a Sedláček, J. (1990). Slovanské souvětí. Praha.
  • Daneš, F. ? Hlavsa, Z. (1981). Větné vzorce v češtině . Praha.
  • Daneš, F. (1985). Věta a text. Praha.
  • Grepl, M. ? Karlík, P. (1998). Skladba češtiny. Olomouc.
  • Hrbáček, J. (1994). Nárys textové syntaxe. Praha.
  • Karlík, P.- Nekula, M.-Pleskalová, J. (eds.). (2002). Encyklopedický slovník češtiny. Praha:. Praha.
  • Karlík, P.- Nekula, M.-Rusínová, Z. (eds.). (1996). Příruční mluvnice češtiny. Praha.
  • Karlík, P. (1995). Studie o českém souvětí. Brno.
  • Kopečný, F. (1958). Základy české skladby. Praha.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology for News Media Editors (2019) Category: Philological sciences 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2025) Category: Philological sciences 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2015) Category: Philological sciences 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology for News Media Editors (2025) Category: Philological sciences 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2025) Category: Philological sciences 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer