Structure of Estonian II
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Course code
EKE6102.HT
old course code
Course title in Estonian
Eesti keele struktuur II
Course title in English
Structure of Estonian II
ECTS credits
6.0
Assessment form
Examination
lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester
Tiina Rüütmaa (language of instruction:Estonian)
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
To create a systematic overview of Estonian syntax and lexicon; to develop student's ability to analyze Estonian sentences.
Brief description of the course
The course covers the following topics. Ways of describing syntactic structure; sentence and their constituent parts, grammatical relationships and functions; basic structure of a context-free elementary clause: parts of a sentence and non-part elements of sentences; communicative sentence types; syntactic processes; complex sentence. Meaning and the lexicon; components and prototypes; meaning variation: polysemy, homonymy, vagueness; lexical and semantic relation.
Practical syntactic and lexical-semantic analyzes of the natural language use will be exercised.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- interprets and uses terminology of syntax and lexicology correctly;
- has knowledge of the Estonian sentence structure and lexicon;
- can define key terms;
- analyzes sentences using phrase structure grammar as a method, recognizes the construction of a sentence constituent and its syntactic function;
- analyzes the natural language use from the lexical-semantic viewpoint.
Teacher
Tiina Rüütmaa
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