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NI-LNG	Introduction to Linguistics for IT Students			Extent of teaching:	2P
Instructor:	Cvrček V.			Completion:	ZK
Department:	18102	Credits:	2	Semester:	L

Annotation:
This one-semester course should provide a gentle introduction to linguistics and language research for students majoring in IT and programming. Students get acquainted with basic concepts used in language descriptions as well as major theories influencing the current mainstream in linguistics. Specific attention will be paid to empirical and quantitative methods in linguistics, including the use of language corpora, and to specific issues of Czech.

Lecture syllabus:
Topics covered:

1.		Language, communication and linguistics ? brief history and current trends in linguistics
2.		Language corpora and their compilation ? methods, problems, use cases
3.		Language system, structure, layers, linguistic disciplines and units
4.		Phonetics ? sound, phoneme, morphoneme, syllable, speech segment; specifics of spoken communication
5.		Graphemics; Morphology ? word structure, morpheme, word formation, productivity; language variability
6.		Morphology (flective) ? grammatical categories of Czech words
7.		Lexicon and vocabulary ? word and lexeme, semantic relations of units within lexicon; types of dictionaries
8.		Lexicon and vocabulary ? multi-word expressions (collocations) and phraseology; onomastics
9.		Syntax and its limitations ? sentence structure and syntagmatics, context analysis
10.		Text, style and discourse ? basic quantitative characteristics of text and language, corpus-based register studies, corpus-assisted discourse analysis
11.		Czech in various comparisons ? history of Czech, typological and genetic classification of Czech
12.		Sociolinguistic aspects of Czech ? stratification, dialects, codification and prescription (vs. description)

Seminar syllabus:
There are not exercises.

Literature:
Bibliografie: Biber, D. et al. (2006): Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. Crystal, D. (1997): The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. Cvrček, V. et al. (2010): Mluvnice současné češtiny. Karolinum. Praha. Čermák, F. (2011): Jazyk a jazykověda. Karolinum. Praha. Čermák, F. (2011): Morfématika a slovotvorba. Nakladatelství Lidové noviny. Praha. Černý, J. (1996): Dějiny lingvistiky. Votobia. Olomouc. Karlík, P. et al. (1995): Příruční mluvnice češtiny. Nakladatelství Lidové noviny. Praha. Karlík, P. et al. (2002): Encyklopedický slovník češtiny. Nakladatelství Lidové noviny. Praha. McEnery, T. et al. (2006): A Glossary of Corpus Linguistics. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. Palková, Z. (1994): Fonetika a fonologie češtiny. Karolinum. Praha. Suassure de, F. (2007): Kurs obecné lingvistiky. Academia. Praha. http://www.korpus.cz

Requirements:
None.

Informace o předmětu a výukové materiály naleznete na https://moodle-vyuka.cvut.cz/course/view.php?id=6937

The course is also part of the following Study plans:

Study Plan Study Branch/Specialization Role Recommended semester NI-MI.2020 Managerial Informatics PV 2 NI-SI.2020 Software Engineering (in Czech) PV 2

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