Course: Morphosyntax IV

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Course title Morphosyntax IV
Course code KNJ/7M4
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction German
Status of course Compulsory
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
Lecturer(s)
  • Kusová Jana, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Sentence structure and possible approaches to the description of a German sentence 2. Constituents (traditional and modern concepts) 3. Types of sentences according to the communication intention (statement sentence, wish sentence and question sentence) 4 - 5 A simple sentence and its word order 6-7 Coordinating sentences (relationship of linkage, contradiction, exclusion and causality); word order 8-11 Subordinate clauses (typology of subordinate clauses according to their introduction, according to the represented clause) 12. Negation 13. Typesetting frame and its violation 14. Nominalization

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
Learning outcomes
German as a foreign language teachers need a reliable orientation in the entire grammar system, knowledge of the rules, understanding of their role in the grammar system and their interrelationships. The aim of the course is to provide detailed theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of German sentence structure, on the topics listed below. An important goal of the course is also to provide students with a contrastive comparison of the grammar system of Czech and German. Lectures and seminars are held in German.
Upon completion of the course, students will have sufficient orientation in the discussed areas of sentence structure in contemporary German (constituents, word order, sentence classification, coordinate sentences, inferior sentences). By passing the comprehensive examination in the subjects "Morphosyntax I - IV", they intensively repeat and systematize their knowledge of the morphosyntax of contemporary German. Due to the above-mentioned emphasis on the perception of the grammar subsystem as a whole and thanks to the contrastive view of Czech and German, students can identify potential critical issues in German as a foreign language teaching in the area of nominal inflection and prepositions, which enables them to convey these to students in a correct and didactically sound manner.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of German language at the level B1+.

Assessment methods and criteria
Combined exam

Written tests (successful completion of two of the three ongoing tests; in case of failure, completion of the semester test - there are three attempts here); continuous preparation for teaching in the form of self-study of the assigned compulsory and recommended literature; active participation in the seminar. The exam consists of a written and an oral part and tests the knowledge of the subjects Morphosyntax I - IV (before the exam students must have completed the zápočty for the subjects Morphosyntax I, Morphosyntax II, Morphosyntax III, Morphosyntax IV). The knowledge review is conducted in German language.
Recommended literature
  • Duden - Die Grammatik, Bd. 4. 9. Aufl. Mannheim: Dudenverlag, 2016. ISBN 978-3-411-04049-0.
  • BUSCHA, Anne a Szilvia SZITA. B-Grammatik. Übungsgrammatik Deutsch als Fremdsprache (B1?B2). eipzig: Schubert Verlag, 2011. ISBN 978-3-941323-10-0.
  • DREYER, Hilke a Richard SCHMITT. Lehr- und Übungsbuch der deutschen Grammatik aktuell. Die Gelbe aktuell. Ismaning: Max Hueber Verlag, 2012. ISBN 978-3-19-307255-9.
  • POVEJŠIL, Jaromír. Mluvnice současné němčiny. Praha: Academia, 2004. ISBN 80-200-0076-3.
  • THIEROFF, Rolf a Petra M. VOGEL. Flexion. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2009. ISBN 978-3-8253-5489-3.


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