UCJIK332 Czech language - a contrastive approach

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Summer 2023
Extent and Intensity
4/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Eva Klímová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Eva Klímová, Ph.D.
Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
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
  • Italian (programme FPF, B7310 Filo)
Course objectives
The course continues Introduction to Italian with the aim to provide the students a deeper insight into the linguistic system of the Italian language on the background of their mother tongue. Czech language, being a synthetic language par excellence, is contrasted with Italian as a partly synthetic and partly analytical language, and with English, purely analytical language.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction: genealogical and morphological classification of Czech
    2. Czech as a synthetic language
    3. Nominal inflexion of Czech in comparison with Italian and English
    4. Verbal inflexion in Czech in comparison with Italian and English
    5. System of tenses in Czech in comparison with Italian and English
    6. Verbal mood in Czech in comparison with Italian and English
    7. Mood and modality of the sentence
    8. Synthetic character of the language on syntactic level: the predicate
    9. Non-finite verb forms and their syntactic function
    10. Word order in Czech and other factors of the information structure
    11. Passive voice in Czech, its form and function, in comparison with Italian and English
    12. Word formation in in Czech in comparison with Italian and English
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: Přednáška 4 HOD/TYD.
Teacher's information
exam
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2014, Summer 2015, Summer 2016, Summer 2017, Summer 2018, Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Summer 2021, Summer 2022, Summer 2024.
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