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KAA / BMFA1
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KAA
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BMFA1
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Title
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Morphology I
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Form of course completion
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Course-credit
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Form of course completion
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Course-credit
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
5
Cred.
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Type of completion
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-
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Type of completion
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-
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Time requirements
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Lecture
1
[HRS/WEEK]
Seminar
2
[HRS/WEEK]
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Included in study average
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NO
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Language of instruction
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English
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Occ/max
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Summer semester
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0 / 88
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0 / 0
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0 / 2
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Included in study average
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NO
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Winter semester
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0 / -
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0 / -
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0 / -
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Timetable
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Yes
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Minimum (B + C) students
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not determined
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Optional course |
Yes
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Optional course
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Yes
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Language of instruction
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English
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Internship duration
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0
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No. of hours of on-premise lessons |
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Evaluation scale |
S|N |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
Yes
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Fundamental course |
No
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Fundamental theoretical course |
Yes
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Evaluation scale |
S|N |
Substituted course
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KAA/MFA1
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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N/A
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Informally recommended courses
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N/A
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Courses depending on this Course
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KAA/BMFA2
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Histogram of students' grades over the years:
Graphic PNG
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Course objectives:
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The main objective of the course is to acquire a competence to employ a wide range of English grammatical structures appropriately depending on the context. All relevant grammatical categories are studied in detail and the course also focuses on contrasting English and Czech morphological systems.
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Requirements on student
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- active participation in seminars
- reading assigned texts before seminars, handouts available in LMS Moodle
- written assignment: text analysis focusing on noun phrases
- final written test
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Content
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Introduction to the field, basic morphological units and terms.
Morphological characteristic of English and Czech.
Word classes.
Concept of phrases, their function and form.
Lexical morphology and word-formation processes.
Nouns, case and gender.
Nouns, number and countability.
Determination, classification and position of determiners.
Types of reference, the use of articles, comparison with Czech.
Pronouns, their properties, function and classification.
Types, properties and gradation of adjectives and their correspondence to other word classes.
Semantic and functional classification of adverbs and their formation.
Prepositions and conjunctions, their types, form and function.
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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Literature
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Basic:
Leech, G. A Glossary of English Grammar. Edinburgh, 2007.
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Basic:
Chalker S. A Student's English Grammar Workbook. London:Longman, 2000.
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Basic:
Quirk, Randolph and Sidney Greenbaum. A Student's Grammar of English. London: Longman, 1990.
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Basic:
Nelson, G., Greenbaum S. An Introduction to English Grammar. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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Basic:
Downing, A., Locke, P. English Grammar: A University Course. Oxon: Routledge, 2006.
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Basic:
Biber, D., Conrad, S., Leech, G. Longman student grammar of spoken and written English.. Harlow : Pearson Education, 2006.
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Basic:
Dušková, Libuše a kol. Mluvnice současné angličtiny na pozadí češtiny. Praha: Academia, 1994.
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Further literature:
Lieber, R. English Nouns: The Ecology of Nominalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Further literature:
Rijkhoff, J. The Noun Phrase. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
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Recommended:
QUIRK, R. et al. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. . Harlow:Longman, 1985.
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Recommended:
Lobeck, A. Discovering Grammar (An Introduction to English Sentence Structure). Oxford: OUP, 2000.
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Recommended:
Eppler, E., Ozon G. English Words and Sentences: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Recommended:
BIBER, D., JOHANSSON, S., LEECH, G., CONRAD, S., FINEGAN, E. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Longman, 1999.
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Recommended:
Dušková, L., A. Klégr, M. Malá a P. Šaldová. Morfologie současné angličtiny (sbírka cvičení, příkladů a textů k morfologickému rozboru). Praha:Karolinum, 2003.
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Recommended:
Huddleston, R., Pullum, G. K. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
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Competences acquired |
Students will gain knowledge in the field of English word classes, their classification, forms and functions. They will be able to assess mutual influence of individual grammatical phenomena, their role within a phrase and the change of their function depending on the context. |
Teaching methods |
- Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
- Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
- Methods of individual activities
- Skills training
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Assessment methods |
- Written examination
- Home assignment evaluation
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