FPF:UCJDLSJ1 Linguistics of a Language Syst - Course Information

UCJDLSJ1 Linguistics of a Language System (English)

Extent and Intensity

1/0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: dzk.

Teacher(s)

prof. PhDr. Jarmila Tárnyiková, CSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Jarmila Tárnyiková, CSc.
Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava

Prerequisites (in Czech)

UCJDAJK1 Corpus Architecture and Text E

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Corpus linguistics with specialization in English (programme FPF, P7310 Filo) (2)

Course objectives (in Czech)

1. Structural properties of sentence complexing in written and spoken communication. (Sentence complexes as configurations of clauses, semi-clauses, clause-like units, absolute and supplementive clauses, nominalised and elliptical structures.} 2. Tendencies in sentence complexing (processing strategies) in English and in Czech (cf. the relatively compact structures in English and relatively loose structures of sentence complexes in Czech]. 3. Information packaging in sentence complexes and its impact on structural configurations within the sentence complex; constructions for highlighting (clefts, pseudo-clefts, extraposition, fronting, existential and presentational "there"; left- and right-dislocation; word-order inversion. 4. The principle of language economy and its impact on sentence patterning (cf. ellipsis, substitution, means of condensation. 5. Scalar approach to co-ordination and subordination; to the main and dependent clauses. 6. The role of context in decoding syntactic structures (the interplay of verbal, situational and pragmatic contexts). 7. Qualitative and quantitative criteria of sentence complex "complexity" (ramification of communicative lines, recursiveness, layered dependency). 8. Sentence complex as a micro-structure within the macro-structure of the text (sentence complex as a contribution to the neatly woven texture). 9. Doing sentence complexes - hands-on experience with parallel samples of sentence complexes (with English as the source language and Czech as the target language). Literatura: Bybee, J. and M. Noonan (eds.).2002. Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishers. Dušková, L. 1999 [1975]. "The Compound and Complex Sentence in English Fiction and Scientific writing". Studies in the English Language. Part 2. 237-246. Dušková, L. 1999[1991]. "The Complex Sentence in British and Czech Grammar". In Studies in the English Language, Part 2.Praha: Karolinum, 219-228. Firbas, J. 1992. Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Repr. 1995) Halliday, M.A.K. 1989[1985]. Spoken and written Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Mathesius, V 1975[1961]. A Functional Analysis of Present-Day English on a General Linguistic Basis. Praha: Academia. Matthiessen, C. and S.A. Thompson, 1988. 'The structure of discourse and 'subordination'". In: Haiman, J. and S.A. Thompson (eds.), Clause combining in grammar and discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 275-329. Poldauf, I. 1969. "The So-Called Medio-Passive in English", Acta Universitatis Carolinae - Philologica 3, Prague Studies in English 13, 15-34. Quirk, R. et al. 1985. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London and New York: Longman Group Ltd. Siwierska, A. 1988. Word Order Rules. London: Croom Helm. Svoboda, A. 1989. Kapitoly z funční syntaxe. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství. Tárnyiková, J. 2002.From Text to Texture. An introduction to processing strategie. Univerzita

Language of instruction

English

Further Comments

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.

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