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Structure of Estonian II

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 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring 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

Prerequisite course 1

Structure of Estonian I (EKE6101.HT)

Study programmes containing that course