| Course title | Morphosyntax |
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| Course code | KAA/AMOS |
| Organizational form of instruction | Seminar |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 4 |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Status of course | Compulsory, Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
| Course availability | The course is available to visiting students |
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| Course content |
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The main topic in the seminar Morphosyntax is the classification of parts of speech. We will in detail discuss the morpho-syntactic characteristics of the major grammatical categories in English, the others are covered by individual reading. We start with a revision of the repertory of inflectional morphemes related to N, A, and V categories. Grammatical categories of nominal and verbal paradigms will be discussed in more detail. With Nouns they are above all categories of Countability/Number, Animacy/Gender, Case and Determination; with Verbs, Tense, Aspect, Voice, Agreement etc. (including the syntactic characteristics of auxiliaries, modals and lexical verbs). We will also analyse in more detail the properties of the phrasal projections of N(P), A(P) and V(P) and the clausal functions of the relevant phrases. Students are expected to study actual English data, analyse them independently and be able to make descriptively adequate generalisations. The general structuralist framework will allow them to explain the properties of English structures and contrast them with Czech referring to more general principles of grammar.
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
Lecture, Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Demonstration
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| Learning outcomes |
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The main topic of the seminar in Morphosyntax is the classification of parts of speech. We will discuss in detail the morpho-syntactic characteristics of the major lexical categories in English.
The students improve their theoretical awareness of the linguistic part of their philological studies. They acquire basic information in the classification of parts of speech and learn in detail about the morpho-syntactic characteristics of the major lexical categories in English (Noun, Adjective/Adverb, Verb). The topics form a main part of the topics in the obligatory exam in English Grammar (GRFZ) |
| Prerequisites |
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The students should attend the course in Introduction to Language (UJ00) and Practical English Grammar (APGR). The working language in the seminar is English and the students are expected to master basic terminology describing English grammar. The course AMOS is one ot the three theoretical grammar courses which deal with topics required for the exam in English Grammar (GRFZ) - those three courses are AMOR: Morphology, AMOS: Morphosyntax,and SNT1:Syntax. The above courses can be attended in any order but the order AMOR-AMOS-SNT1 is the most salient. We recommend the attendance of all three courses, however, if a student choses to attend only some of them, then the course in Morphology (AMOR) is not the crucial one and most of the exam topics are related to the courses AMOS (Parts of Speech) and SNT1 (Sentence functions).
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Essay
Attendance and homework preparation for the course, including several written homeworks. During the course students present at least one written essay based (also) on individual reading (cca 25 pages of text). A written credit test may also be required for the final credit. The credit is EVALUATED - the mark (A-F:1-3)is calculated based on the credit test, final essay and possibly also homework, depending on the criteria announced by the teacher (to appear in Moodle). The evaluation will be taken into account (25 p.c.) for the English Grammar exam (kaa/GRFZ). |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English for Translators and Interpreters (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English for Translators and Interpreters (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English for Translators and Interpreters (2015) | Category: Philological sciences | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2020) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2015) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2015) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English for Translators and Interpreters (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: - |