DECLARATIVE DESCRIPTION OF CZECH

PREREQUISITES:

recommendation: an introductory course in linguistics
suggestion for those interested in formal linguistic theories (can be taken in parallel, only in the first term):

• Syntax bez transformací (Syntax without transformations - focus on practical grammar writing, formal metalanguage, comparison with other theories and issues of implementation)
• Linguistic Theories and Grammar Formalisms (in English, with brief introductions to other formal theories and a grammar-writing part)

SYLLABUS:

1. levels of linguistic description, language as a collection of (linguistic) phenomena, description of language as an account of the interaction of linguistic phenomena
2. basic structure of a simple Czech sentence (description of basic word order and valency)
3. simple feature structure, unification, lexicon
4. description of subject-predicate agreement in a simple sentence
5. complex feature structure, linguistic categories as a hierarchy of types
6. semantic interpretation of language expressions
7. description of a simple free modification (adverbial, congruent attribute)
8. abstract description of valency, formal tools for a general description of valency frames
9. list as a feature value, disjunction
10. case assignment