Grammar 3
Autumn term 2021
Teacher: doc. Mgr. Jan Chovanec, Ph.D.
Contact: chovanec@phil.muni.cz
Course requirements: Go through the presentations in moodle on the individual grammatical topics
Readings for sessions: read on your own, we will discuss them in class
Exercises: do in advance, we will discuss and check them in class
Final exam: a test based on the compulsory readings (Huddleston CH13, 14, 15; Tárnyiková, Biber et
al. CH12; please note that there is a substantial overlap among some parts of the readings.)
Course syllabus:
Session 1 (24.9.2021)
 Course introduction
 Input from moodle (lectures 1-3)
Session 2 (22.10.2021)
 Read: Huddleston and Pullum CH13-Non-finite clauses (independent reading)
 Input from moodle
Session 3 (26.11.2021)
 Read: Huddleston and Pullum CH14-Coordination and more
 Input from moodle
 Exercise – Grammar - Coordination Left and Right Dislocation
Session 4 (17.12.2021)
 Read: Huddleston and Pullum CH15-Information packaging
 Biber et al. CH12 Word order choices
 Input from moodle
 Exercises (from Huddleston and Pullum CH15)