Annotation
LECTURE:
OBJECTIVES
To provide a survey of the history of English linguistic studies in Czechoslovakia and the basics of the linguistic description of English.
PROCEDURE
The course introduces and applies the basic concepts of all structural language levels to English, covering its current state and status, social and regional variation, grammar, lexis, sound and writing systems.
MATERIAL
D. Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, 1995
F. Čermák, Jazyk a jazykověda, 1994
S. Greenbaum, R. Quirk, A Student's Grammar of the English Language, 1990
G. Leech, Introducing English Grammar, 1992
T. MacArthur, The Oxford Companion to the English Language, 1996
V. Mathesius, Obsahový rozbor současné angličtiny na základě obecně lingvistickém, 1961
J. Vachek, Prolegomena k dějinám pražské školy jazykovědné, 1999
SEMINAR:
OBJECTIVES
To provide additional material with practical exercises to exemplify and develop topics covered in the lecture: varieties of English, genetic and structural classification, British vs. American English, inflectional and derivational morphology, syntax, lexical semantics, lexicography, accentology and graphology.
MATERIAL (see also Lecture 3.1.1.1)
Algeo J., Pyles T., The Origins and Development of the English Language, 1993
Crystal, D., The English Lanaguage, Penguin Books, 1990
Dušková, L., Mluvnice současné angličtiny na pozadí češtiny, 1994
Greenbaum, S., Quirk, R., A Student's Grammar of the English Language, 1990
Lyons J., Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics, 1968
Nosek, J., Emmerová, J., Úvod do studia anglického jazyka (skripta), 1965
Nosek, J., Grafika moderní angličtiny, 1991
Quirk R., et al., A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (Chap. 1, 2), 1985
P. Roach, English Phonetics and Phonology, 1996
Trudgill, P., J. Hannah, J., International English. A Guide to Varieties of Standard English, 1994
Vachek, J., Firbas, J., Historický pohled na dnešní angličtinu (skripta), 1. vyd. 1966
ASSESSMENT
Credit on the basis of attendance, course work, assignments and a written test.