PREREQUISITES:

recommendation: Úvod do obecné lingvistiky (Panevová/Hajičová) (Introduction in General Linguistics) or Teorie jazyka (Starý) (Theory of Language) or other introductory course in linguistics
suggestion for those interested in formal linguistic theories (can be taken in parallel, only in the summer semester):

• Lexikálně funkční gramatika (Lexical Functional Grammar, follows Úvod do unifikačních gramatik - Introduction to unification grammars)
• Syntax bez transformací (Syntax without transformations - HPSG from a more formal viewpoint, more stress on the formal metalanguage, comparison with other theories and the issues of implementation, only partial overlap with the current course, also follows Úvod do unifikačních gramatik - Introduction to unification grammars)

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