Descriptive Grammar - Russian - level 2

obligatory courses

Knowledge of basics of Polish grammar. Basic knowledge of Russian.

Classroom

Grammar, its object and heuristic procedures; the place of morphology and word formation among other linguistic sciences; basic notions of morphemics, word formation and morphology; morphemic and derivational analysis of the word; survey of types and categories of word formation; types of derivation; grammatical category, criteria of establishment of parts of speech; formal and semantic characterization of concrete parts of speech.

The aim of the course: development of skills necessary for work with scientific monographies, encyclopedias and dictionaries of linguistic terminology; acquisition of basic grammatical terminology belonging to Russian tradition as compared with Polish one; advancement of skills of morphological and word formation analysis employing proposed procedures (morphematic analysis, word formation analysis); description of certain similarities as well as discrepancies between Russian and Polish desinence and word formation; analysis of their implications for translation.Main topics:The object of grammar, methodology of linguistic studies and description; basic notions of morphemics: morphemic structure of the word; morpheme and morph; types of morphemes; morphemic analysis of the word; main notions of word formation: synchronic VS diachronic and etymological analysis; motivation; formants, types of formants; derivational meaning, derivational type and derivational category; productivity of the type; types of derivation; the place of morphology among other linguistic sciences, its object and tasks; morphological categories, their types, criteria of establishment of parts of speech; lexical semantic groups of various parts of speech; formal and semantic characterization of major and minor parts of speech: nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals, verbs, adverbs and "category of state", conjunctions, particles, interjections.

If classroom learning is impossible, the workshop will be conducted with the help of distance communication tools, most probably Google Meet and others recommended by the University.

Nagórko A., 2002, Zarys gramatyki polskiej, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN

Novikov A., (red.), 1999, Sovremennyj russkij jazyk, Sankt-Peterburg: "Lan'"

Shvedova N.Ju. (red.), 1982, Russkaja grammatika, Moskva: "Nauka", tom 1,2

Wawrzyńczyk J., Zmarzer W., 1987, Gramatyka współczesnego języka rosyjskiego, pod red. A. Bartoszewicza i J. Wawrzyńczyka, część 3 - Morfologia, Warszawa, PWN

Zmarzer W., 1987, Gramatyka współczesnego języka rosyjskiego, pod red. A. Bartoszewicza i J. Wawrzyńczyka, część 2 - Leksyka. Słowotwórstwo, Warszawa, PWN

The student

- Analyzes the morphemic structure of words;

- Explains most prominent morphological, semantic and syntactic properties of every part of speech;

- Differentiates between formal and non-formal categories, between classifying and “word-changing”, “reflecting” and interpretative categories;

- Explains the sense of noun and adjective gender, number, case;

- Explains the difference between “pronouns nouns” and standard nouns;

- Knows the most prominent aspectological theories (theory of completion, theory of terminativity, the theory of M. Glovinska, the theory of singularity VS multiplicity);

- Knows the most prominent theories of voice (passive voice as promotion of object, passive voice as demotion of subject);

- Knows the main uses of tenses, moods, persons

Semestral credit

Assessment criteria:

Assessed is knowledge of basic grammatical cetegories and ability of their detection:

99%-100% - 5!

98%-91% - 5

90%-86% - 4,5

85%-76% - 4

75%-71% - 3,5

70%-60% - 3

poniżej - 2 (nzal)

For correction test, criteria are the same

Absence from 2 classes is permissible