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Course: Russian syntax

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Course title Russian syntax
Course code KRF/SYNR
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Javorský Pavel, Kandidát filologických věd
  • Vytejčková Kateřina, doc. CSc.
Course content
Fundamental terminology of traditional and modern syntax. Sentence and statement. Sentence elements, syntactical relationships within the simple, complex and compound sentence. Sentence patterns. Complex and compound sentence. Word order. Punctuation. Thematic issues: 1. Sentence and statement. Process of predication (functional sentence perspective). Classification of sentences. 2. Syntactic relationships and ways of their expression. 3. Sentence elements. Syntactic features that do not have status of a sentence elements. 4. Fundamental sentence elements (subject, predicate). 5. Other sentence elements (object, attribute, adverbial, complement). 6. Specific features of clauses: participles and participial constructions 7. Word order and functional sentence perpective. 8. Nominal and subject less sentences. 9. Complex and compound sentences. Parataxis and paratactical compound sentence. 10. Hypotaxis and hypotactical complex sentence. 11. Complex and compound sentence.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture with practical applications, Seminar
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 30 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 38 hours per semester
  • Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40) - 20 hours per semester
  • Preparation for formative assessments (2-20) - 10 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
delimit the syntax location between other language subsystems
define basic syntactic units: phrase, sentence
clarify the nature of syntactic links in a phrase and sentence
Skills
recognize paratactic and inferior syntactic connections in text
determine sentence elements
Competences
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
clarify the specifics of such syntactic relationships as prediction, coordination, determination
explain principles of classification of phrases and sentences
present differences in approaches of Russian and Czech syntactics to particular syntactic phenomena
Skills
identify types of syntactic connections and sentence-level syntactic relationships
perform syntactic analysis of a sentence of different types (simple sentence, sentence, multi-element theorem)
describe the difference between Russian and Czech sentences
Competences
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Seminar
Interactive lecture
Skills
Seminar
Competences
Self-study of literature
Students' portfolio
assessment methods
Knowledge
Combined exam
Test
Seminar work
Skills
Skills demonstration during practicum
Competences
Seminar work
Continuous assessment
Recommended literature
  • BABALOVA, L. L. Praktikum po russkoj grammatike: č 2. Sintaksis prostogo i složlogo predloženija. Moskva, 2013. ISBN 978-5-88337-233-8.
  • Balandina, N. V., Grekova, O. K., Kiržanova, S. V. Krasilnikova, L. V., Kuzminova, E. A. Kommunikativnyj sintaxis russkogo jazyka: učebnoje posobije dlja inostrannych magistrantov-lingvistov.. Moskva, 2017.
  • Barnetová, V. a kol. Russkaja grammatika 2. Vydání 1. Praha, 1979.
  • Bauer, J. a kol. Příruční mluvnice pro Čechy. II. 2. vyd. Praha, 1979.
  • Česal, B., Vyčichlová, E. Cvičení z ruské syntaxe. II., Souvětí. Plzeň, 1997. ISBN 80-7082-372-0.
  • Česal, B., Vyčichlová, E. Cvičení z ruské syntaxe. III., Klíč k překladovým cvičením. Plzeň, 1998. ISBN 80-7082-409-3.
  • Česal, Bedřich; Vyčichlová, Ema. Cvičení z ruské syntaxe. I., Věta jednoduchá. Plzeň, 2002. ISBN 80-7082-906-0.
  • Flídrová, H., Žaža, S. Russkij sintaksis v sopostavlenii s češskim.. Brno, 2013. ISBN 978-80-263-0355-8.
  • Flídrová, H., Žaža, S. Russkij sintaksis v sopostavlenii s češskim.. Olomouc, 2005.
  • Ivanova, I. S. et al. Sintaksis: praktičeskoje posobije po russkomu jazyku kak inostrannomu. 3-je izdanije.. Sankt-Peterburg, 2011. ISBN 978-5-86547-470-8.
  • Kubík, Miloslav. Russkij sintaksis v sopostavlenii s češskim : Vysokošk. učebnice pro posl. fakult připravujících učitele. Praha, 1983.
  • Lazutkina, E. M. Slovar grammatičeskoj sočetajemosti slov russkovo jazyka. Moskva, 2012. ISBN 978-5-462-01146-7.
  • Melikjan, V. J. Sovremennyj russkij jazyk: sintaksičeskaja frazeologija: učebnoje posobije. Učebnoje izdanije.. Moskva, 2014. ISBN 978-5-9765-1697-7.
  • Norman, B. J. Kognitivnyj sintaksis russkogo jazyka: učebnoje posobije. Učebnoje izdanije.. Moskva, 2013. ISBN 978-5-9765-1586-4.
  • Popovskaja, L.V.,Licočenko, O.V. Russkij jazyk dla inostrancev: praktikum.. Rostov-na-Donu, 2013. ISBN 978-5-222-20242-5.
  • ŠVEDOVA, Natalija Jul´jevna. Russkaja grammatika II. Sintaksis. Moskva, 1980.
  • VALGINA, N. S.; ROZENTAL, D. E.; FOMINA, M. I. Sovremennyj russkij jazyk. Moskva, 2002.
  • VALGINA, N. S. Sintaksis sovremennogo russkogo jazyka. Moskva, 2000.
  • VALGINA, N. S. Sovremennyj russkij jazyk. Sintaksis.. Moskva, 2003. ISBN 5-06-004540-4.
  • Vychodilová, Z. Výrazová úspornost v syntaxi současné ruštiny. Olomouc, 2011. ISBN 978-80-244-2886-4.


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University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, date of update: 22.01.2026 23:51. Data created for academic year 2025/2026