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Course: Syntax I

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Course title Syntax I
Course code URO/0SF1
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction French
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)
  • Pešek Ondřej, prof. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Syntax as a linguistic discipline. 2. Contemporary theoretical frameworks of syntactic analysis. 3. Sentence, utterance, syntagm. 4. Levels of sentence analysis (constituents, sentence elements, valency patterns and frames, information structure). 5. Valency, predication, semantic structure of the sentence. 6. Sentence elements: traditional definitions versus the valency approach. 7. Subject. 8. Direct object and indirect object. 9. Agent complement. 10. Adverbial. 11. Attribute and apposition. 12. Modality and sentence types. 13. Word order (overview), modifications of the canonical sentence structure.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
Learning outcomes
The main objective of the course is to present to the students the basis of the syntax of simple clause of the French language from theoretical and practical perspective, confrontation of different approaches to syntactic descriptions. Practice of syntactic phenomena. Comparison of Czech and French syntactic structures. Students will also learn to exploit electronic corpora (Frantext, InterCorp, FrWac).
The student applies various approaches to the syntactic analysis of a simple sentence. The student graphically represents the syntactic structure of a sentence. The student identifies the sentence elements of a French sentence. The student uses differently structured sentence constructions to achieve various communicative goals. The student explains the specific features of French sentence structure in comparison with Czech.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of French language at least at the B2 common reference level.

Assessment methods and criteria
Written examination

Compulsory assistance. Final test. Min. 66%. Number of attempts: two (one regular and one retake)
Recommended literature
  • Abeillé, Anne,; Godard, Dani?le,; Delaveau, Annie; Gautier, Antoine. La grande grammaire du français. 1. 1re édition. Arles: Actes Sud, 2021. ISBN 978-2-330-14239-1.
  • Abeillé, Anne,; Godard, Dani?le,; Delaveau, Annie; Gautier, Antoine. La grande grammaire du français. 2. 1re édition. Arles: Actes Sud, 2021. ISBN 978-2-330-14239-1.
  • Beaujeu, C.-M., et al. Grammaire, 350 exercices. Niveau supérieur II. Paris. 1991.
  • Béchade, Hervé D. Syntaxe du français moderne et contemporain. Paris. 1993.
  • Daneš, František; Hlavsa, Zdeněk. Větné vzorce v češtině. Vydání 1. Praha: Academia, 1981.
  • Daneš, František. Mluvnice češtiny : vysokošk. učebnice pro stud. filozof. a pedagog. fakult aprobace čes. jazyk. [Díl] 3, Skladba. 1. vyd. Praha : Academia: Academia, 1987.
  • Grepl, Miroslav; Karlík, Petr. Skladba češtiny. Olomouc : Votobia: Votobia, 1998. ISBN 80-7198-281-4.
  • Grevisse, Maurice; Goosse, André. Le bon usage : grammaire française : Grevisse langue française. 14e éd. Bruxelles : De Boeck & Larcier: De Boeck & Larcier, 2008. ISBN 978-2-8011-1404-9.
  • Le Goffic, Pierre. Grammaire de la phrase française. Paris : Hachette: Hachette, 1993. ISBN 2-01-020383-6.
  • Miličková, Ladislava. Exercices de grammaire française. 1. vyd. Brno : Masarykova univerzita: Masarykova univerzita, 1992. ISBN 80-210-0392-8.
  • Panevová, Jarmila. Mluvnice současné češtiny. 2, Syntax češtiny na základě anotovaného korpusu. Vydání první. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2014. ISBN 978-80-246-2497-6.
  • Riegel, Martin; Pellat, Jean-Christophe; Rioul, René. Grammaire méthodique du français. Septi?me édition. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2018. ISBN 978-2-13-080060-6.
  • Šabršula, Jan. Vědecká mluvnice francouzštiny. 1. vyd. Praha : Academia: Academia, 1986.
  • Tellier, Christine. Éléments de syntaxe du français : méthodes d'analyse en grammaire générative. 2e édition. Montréal: Gaëtan Morin Éditeur, 2003. ISBN 978-2-89105-849-0.
  • Wilmet, Marc. Grammaire critique du français. 2. éd. Paris : De Boeck & Larcier: De Boeck & Larcier, 1998. ISBN 2-8011-1206-2.


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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA IN ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE, date of update: 10.05.2026 23:50. Data created for academic year 2026/2027