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Course: Syntax II

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Course title Syntax II
Course code URO/0SF2
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
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. Complex sentence - definition. 2. Subordination and types of subordinate clauses. 3.-5. Complement clauses (subject, object, attributive). 6. Relative clauses. 7.-10. Adverbial clauses - temporal, locative, causal, concessive, coordinate, purposive, conditional, attributive, restrictive, comparative. 11. Coordination and connectives. 12. Juxtaposition. 13. Complex sentences in text 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 compound sentences of the French language from theoretical and practical perspective, confrontation of different approaches to syntactic descriptions. The relation between clauses will be analyzed also from the pragmatic point of view. 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 complex sentences. The student identifies different types of subordinate clauses. The student produces grammatically correct complex sentences using appropriate connectives and verb forms. The student explains the specific features of French complex sentence structure in comparison with Czech.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of French language at least at the B2 common reference level.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Written examination

Regulary assistance, final written and oral exam.
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. Mluvnice češtiny : vysokošk. učebnice pro stud. filozof. a pedagog. fakult aprobace čes. jazyk. [Díl] 3, Skladba. 1. vyd. Praha : Academia: Academia, 1987.
  • Garagnon, Anne-Marie; Calas, Frédéric. La Phrase complexe : de l'analyse logique a l'analyse structurale. Paris: Hachette, 2002. ISBN 2-01-145433-6.
  • 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.
  • Le Goffic, Pierre. Grammaire de la subordination en français : décrire, comprendre, maîtriser. Paris: Editions Ophrys, 2019. ISBN 978-2-7080-1540-1.
  • 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.
  • Verjans, Thomas; Gardes-Tamine, Joëlle. La subordination : méthodes et notions. Paris: Armand Colins, 2013. ISBN 978-2-200-28733-7.
  • 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: 11.05.2026 23:50. Data created for academic year 2026/2027