UBKCJLNP15 Modern Czech Grammar

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Summer 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Miloslav Vondráček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Magdaléna Lapúniková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. PhDr. Miloslav Vondráček, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Miloslav Vondráček, Ph.D.
Institute of The Czech Language and Library Science – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Prerequisites
Knowledge of linguistic theory at the bachelor's degree level.
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
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the current tendencies in Modern Czech grammar at various levels: phonology, morphology, syntax as well as text linguistics.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge of Czech grammar at the master's level; knowledge of important theoretical works and opinions in contemporary Czech linguistics; work with the Czech national corpus and other electronic material resources.
Syllabus
  • 1. Czech grammar - history, present. Important New Bohemian grammars. Neuralgic points of grammatical interpretations. Research methods. 2. Phonetic, phonological, lexical, morphological, syntactic word. 3. Basic phenomena of the sound side of speech in relation to grammatical phenomena. 4. Higher order grammar categories. Word-sort transpositions as a reflection of communication needs. 5. Lower order grammatical categories - nouns. Development tendencies caused by the communication area and the norm. 6. Grammatical categories of lower order - verbal. Development tendencies caused by the communication area and the norm. Reflection of thinking in the use of functional possibilities of the verb. 7. Declension paradigms. Status in contemporary grammars of Czech. Polymorphism and variability. Research methods. 8. Conjugation paradigms. 9. Sentence and statement, problems of sentence typology according to the speaker's attitude. Theorem according to the attitude of the speaker versus KF's statement. 10. Syntactic relations, their realization in written and spoken speech 11. Communication functions of utterance in written and spoken text. 12. Current sentence structure and utterance. 13. Grammar resources in the implementation of the statement with   communication function.
Literature
    required literature
  • KARLÍK, P., NEKULA, M., PLESKALOVÁ, J. Encyklopedický slovník češtiny. Praha: LN, 2002. info
  • ČECHOVÁ, M. a kol. Čeština - řeč a jazyk. Praha: ISV, 2000. info
  • Karlík, P., Nekula, M., Z Rusínová (Eds.). Příruční mluvnice češtiny. Praha: NLN, 2000. info
    recommended literature
  • BLÁHA, Ondřej (Ed.). Spisovná čeština a jazyková kultura 2018. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2018. info
  • CVRČEK, Václav. Mluvnice současné češtiny. Praha: Karolinum, 2015. info
  • PANEVOVÁ, Jarmila. Mluvnice současné češtiny. Praha: Karolinum, 2014. info
  • ŠTÍCHA, František. Akademická gramatika spisovné češtiny. Praha: Academia, 2013. info
  • Kol. Studie k moderní mluvnici češtiny 1?7. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2013. ISBN 978-80-244-3535-0. info
  • KOMÁREK, M. Příspěvky k české morfologii. Olomouc: Periplum, 2006. info
  • R. Šrámek (Ed.). Spisovnost a nespisovnost dnes. Brno: MU, 1996. info
  • Jančáková, J., Komárek, M., Uličný, O. (Eds.). Spisovná čeština a jazyková kultura 1993. 1. a 2. díl. Praha: UK, 1995. info
  • MÜLLEROVÁ, O. Mluvený text a jeho syntaktická výstavba. Praha: Academia, 1994. info
  • SGALL, P., HRONEK, J. Čeština bez příkras. Praha: H & H, 1992. info
Teaching methods
One-to-One tutorial
Internship
Skills demonstration
Seminar classes
Students' self-study
Assessment methods
The analysis of student 's performance
Language of instruction
Czech
Teacher's information
Active participation in the seminar (two absences are permitted), final written test
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024.
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