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Course: Current Trends in Linguistics

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Course title Current Trends in Linguistics
Course code URO/0SLS
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory, Compulsory-optional
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)
  • Štichauer Pavel, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Pragmatics 1.1. Modern (neo-gricean) pragmatics, implicatures, presuppositions. 1.2. Speech acts theory. 2. Corpus linguistics 2.1. Definition and typology of corpora. Basic notions. 2.2. Case studies (e.g., morphological productivity in a corpus). 3. Generative linguistics 3.1. Government and Binding Theory I: Phrase structure, functional projections 3.2. Government and Binding Theory II: Binding, movement, etc. 4. Cognitive linguistics 4.1. Basic notions. Stereotypes and prototypes. Metonymy. Space and Time. 4.2. Psycholinguistics and the first language acquisition research. 5. Optimality Theory (OT) 5.1. Foundational issues of OT in phonology 5.2. OT applied to other domains of the linguistic system (morphology, syntax). 6. Current approaches to inflectional morphology 6.1. Paradigm Function Morphology (Stump 2001), Word and Paradigm Morphology, etc. 6.2. Morphomic patterns (Maiden 2005, 2018).

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
Learning outcomes
The aim of this course is to provide an introduction to a selection of the main current trends and theories in linguistics, such as pragmatics, corpus linguistics, generative grammar, cognitive linguistics, Optimality Theory, and various approaches to morphology, in particular to inflection which has become, over the past decades, a major theoretical concern. The course focuses on the fundamental premises of all these approaches.
Student will acquire an outline of important linguistic movements that are developing in the contemporary linguistic research, and will apply them to linguistic material.
Prerequisites
No special prerequisites.

Assessment methods and criteria
Written examination, Student performance assessment

1. Regular attendance 2. Reading assignments 3. Active participation in class
Recommended literature
  • Archangeli, D. & Terence Langendoen, D. (eds.). (1997) Optimality Theory - an overview, Oxford - Malden: Blackwell..
  • Aronoff, M. (1994) Morphology by Itself, Cambridge: The MIT Press..
  • Austin, J. L. (1962) How to Do Things with Words, český překlad Jiří Pechar, Jak udělat něco slovy, Praha: Filosofia (2000)..
  • Bloom, P. (2000) How Children Learn the Meanings of Words, Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press..
  • Carstairs-McCarthy, A. (2010) The evolution of Morphology, Oxford: Oxford University Press..
  • Clark, E. (1993) The lexicon in acquisition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press..
  • Clark, E. (2003) First Language Acquisition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press..
  • Haegeman, L. (1994) Introduction to Government and Binding Theory 2nd edition, Oxford: Blackwell..
  • Hajičová, E. & Panevová J. & Sgall, P. (2002) Úvod do teoretické a počítačové lingvistiky, 1. svazek - Teoretická lingvistika, Praha: Karolinum..
  • Hajičová, E. (2000) Teorie optimality a aktuální členění věty, in: Slovo a slovesnost 61, s. 161 - 169..
  • Chomsky, N. (1992) A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory, MIT Occasional Papers in Linguistics, Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press..
  • Chomsky, N. (2000) New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press..
  • Kleiber, G. (1990) La sémantique du prototype, Paris: PUF..
  • Kleiber, G. (1994) Nominales. Essais de sémantique référentielle, Paris: Armand Colin..
  • Kleiber, G. (1999) Problemes de sémantique. La polysémie en questions, Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion..
  • Langacker, R. W. (1987) Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, Vol. I, Theoretical Prerequisites, Stanford: Standford University Press..
  • Langacker, R. W. (1991) Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, Vol. II, Descriptive Application, Stanford: Standford University Press..
  • Levinson, S. C. (1983) Pragmatics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press..
  • Levinson, S. C. (2000) Presumptive Meanings. The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature, Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press..
  • Lieber, R. (1992) Deconstructing Morphology. Word Formation in Syntactic Theory, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press..
  • Prince, A. & Smolensky, P. (1993) Optimality Theory, Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar (ROA Version 8/2002) - ROA Archive..
  • Pustejovsky, J. (1995) The Generative Lexicon, Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press..
  • Pustejovsky, J. (1998) Generativity and Explanation in Semantics: A Reply to Fodor and Lepore, in: Linguistic Inquiry, 29, 2, s. 289 - 311..
  • Searle, J. R. (1969) Speech Acts. An Essay in the Philosophy of Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press..
  • Searle, J. R. (1979) Expression and Meaning. Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press..
  • Stump, G. (2001) Inflectional Morphology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press..


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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA IN ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE, date of update: 13.06.2025 23:50. Data created for academic year 2025/2026