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Course: Supersentential Syntax and Text

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Course title Supersentential Syntax and Text
Course code KBH/92BNS
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 10
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Svobodová Jindřiška, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1) Utterance theory, predication, reference, quantification, sentence, utterance 2) Textual coherence and cohesion, means of deixis 3) Modality, types of modal meanings, means to express modality, modality vs. communicative functions of an utterance. Communicative functions in the Czech linguistic tradition 4) Functional sentence perspective as a means of cohesion. Thematic progressions in authentic texts

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
During the whole course the students will be encouraged to apply practical analysis on authentic texts. The analyses will aim to discover and describe rules of syntactic composition of the texts. Due attention will be paid to syntactic phenomena that scope over more than one utterance. The main focus of the course will be on means of text construction, text cohesion and the phenomena connected with expressing attitudes, modality and communicative functions.
Competence for syntactic analysis of authentic texts; general overview of theoretical approaches to textual analysis; practical acquisition of rules resulting in the production of clearly and logically structured coherent texts
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Analysis of linguistic, Seminar Work

The ability to use the terms and methods acquired to analyse an authentic text Substantial knowledge of the basic reference literature
Recommended literature
  • Austin, J. L., & Pechar, J. (2000). Jak udělat něco slovy. Praha.
  • Benešová, E., Sgall, P., & Panevová, J. (1971). Čas a modalita v češtině. Praha.
  • Daneš, F. (2009). Kultura a struktura českého jazyka. Praha.
  • Daneš, F. (1985). Věta a text: studie ze syntaxe spisovné češtiny. Praha.
  • Grepl, M., & Karlík, P. (1998). Skladba češtiny. Olomouc.
  • Hirschová, M. (2006). Pragmatika v češtině. Olomouc.
  • Hirschová, M. (1989). Úvod do teorie textu.. Olomouc.
  • Karlík, P., Nekula, M., & Pleskalová, J. (2002). Encyklopedický slovník češtiny. Praha.
  • Leech, G. - Svartvik, J. (2003). Communicative Grammar. 3. vyd..
  • Petr, J., Knappová, M., Horálek, K., Petr, J., Dokulil, M., & Hůrková-Novotná, J. (1986). Mluvnice češtiny. Praha.
  • Sgall, P., Buráňová, E., & Hajičová, E. (1980). Aktuální členění věty v češtině. Praha.
  • Svoboda, A. (1989). Kapitoly z funkční syntaxe. Praha.
  • Štícha. F. (2013). Akademická gramatika spisovné češtiny. Praha.
  • Tárnyiková, J. (2002). From text to texture: an introduction to processsing strategies. Olomouc.
  • Uhlířová, L. (1987). Knížka o slovosledu. Praha.


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Palacký University Olomouc, date of update: 02.05.2026 23:52. Data created for academic year 2026/2027