Syllabus
1. Czech as a West Slavonic language. The genealogical classification of languages. Czech language from a diachronic perspective.
2. Czech as an inflectional language. Skalička’s typology of languages. The contrast between synthetic language (Czech) and analytic language (English).
3. Fundaments of Czech phonetics and phonology. Practical exercises in Czech pronunciation. Czech prosody.
4. Czech orthography. Correlation between graphemes and phonemes.
5. Czech morphology. Grammatical system. Nominal morphology. The grammatical category of case, grammatical gender, animacy, and number.
6. Czech morphology. Grammatical system. Verbal morphology. The grammatical category of person, number, tense, mood, and aspect.
7. Czech syntax. Czech word order. Principles of functional sentence perspective.
8. Principles of word formation. Derivational morphology. Abbreviation. Composition. Foreign words in Czech. Adaptation of foreign words.
9. Czech sociolinguistic characteristics. Diglossia. Common Czech, inter-dialects, dialects, sociolects.
10. Prague Linguistic Circle. Prominent personalities of Czech linguistics. International influence.
11. Practical exercises depending on the Czech language knowledge.
12. Student presentations, discussion, evaluation and assessment.
Annotation
The course deals with the fundaments of Czech grammar. Czech language from synchronic and diachronic perspective, Czech language as a West Slavonic language, Czech language grammar system.
Stratification linguistics.