Course: Syntax

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Course title Syntax
Course code KBH/SYNS
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 2
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction 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
1) Basic instruction of the terms sentence and utterance 2) Principles of analysis and description of sentence structures 3) Obligatory, facultative and potential sentence positions. 4) Generally on sentence members 5) Hierarchization of semantical sentence structure 6) Predicate 7) Object 8) Qualifying complement, adverbial of accompanying events/state, on the so called complement 9) Paratactic syntactic relations 10) Functional sentence perspective (FSP), degrees of sentence dynamism, different conceptions of FSP description

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), 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
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Didactic Test

Active participation in the lectures, student?s independent presentation concerning a topic from the lectures, successful passing of three written tests.
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