Course code

FEE6007

old course code

FEE6007

Course title in Estonian

Eesti keele süntaks

Course title in English

Estonian Syntax

ECTS credits

3.0

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

The subject belongs in the intermediate level of the curricula of Estonian philology, teacher of Estonian language and literature and teacher of Estonian language in basic school. To develop general understanding of the basic structure of Estonian simple sentences, on which an in depth treatment of the following course FEE1111Estonian Syntax II, is based and to become familiar with the discussions of the same subject in professional publications.

Brief description of the course

Ways of describing syntactic structure. Historical and present day description of Estonian syntax. Sentence and their constituent parts, grammatical relationships, main types of sentences. Basic structure of a context-free elementary clause: parts of a sentence, non-part elements of sentences, deep structure of different types of phrases. Communicative and nominative modality and their formation in the sentence, communicative sentence types. Syntactic processes: ellipsis, coordination, substitution. Information structure of the sentence and word order. Secondary constructions and subordinate clauses, their classification and status in sentences. Exercises on sentence analysis, correct usage etc. Seminars on the issues of Estonian syntax.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:

Üldised teadmised eesti keele lauseehitusest, lause moodustajate struktuurist ja funktsioonidest; praktilise lauseanalüüsi suutlikkus

Teacher

dots Katre Õim

Prerequisite course 1

Estonian Morphology (FEE6006.HT)

The course is a prerequisite