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Lecturer(s)
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Vaculíková Petra, Mgr.
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Faltýnek Dan, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Bennett Ľudmila, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. What is grammar. Grammar VS spelling 2. From the Earliest Grammars to the Present: Panini and Ancient Greek Grammars 3. Transformational generative grammar, Prague dependency treebank 4. The beginnings of aphasia research 5. Biology at the center: psycho-, cognitive and neuro-linguistics, biolinguistics and biosemiotics 6. Cognitive metaphors and morphology. Jamin Pelkey 7. Biological Anthropology and the Development of Language: Terrence Deacon 8. Faculty of languages. Recursion 9. How they have it in the Amazon. Daniel L. Everett 10. Three E's: embodied, embedded, enactive. Distributed language 11. Movie The Grammar of Happiness (2012) 12. Tes
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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)
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to present the basic directions of current research in the field of linguistics, the assumptions of the paradigm of generative grammar, especially the connection between linguistics and biology. Graduates of the course will understand the current interdisciplinary focus of linguistics and the reflection of generativism in Czech grammars.
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Prerequisites
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Reading English
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance, Dialog, Systematic Observation of Student, Analyssis of the Student's Portfolio, Seminar Work
(1) regular class attendance (2) active in-class participation (incl. home assignments - reading of one of the recommended texts (or part of it), discussion) (3) credit test
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Recommended literature
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Croft, W., Cruse, A. D. (2004). Cognitive linguistics. Cambridge.
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Croft, W. (1990). Typology and Universals. Cambridge.
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Evans, V. - Green, M. (2006). Cognitive Linguistics. An Introduction. Edinburgh.
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Chomsky, Noam. (1995). The Minimalist Program.
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Pinker, S. (2008). Slova a pravidla. Praha.
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Ungerer, F. ? Schmid, H. J. (2006). An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. London.
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