CS2RC_JHMC Historical Grammar of Czech Language

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/0/10. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Hana Svobodová, Dr. phil. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Eva Minářová, CSc.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Nataša Vrbová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
CS2RC_JHMC/OS01: Fri 30. 10. 14:50–18:20 učebna 67, Fri 20. 11. 11:10–13:45 učebna 67, Fri 11. 12. 8:25–11:00 učebna 67, H. Svobodová
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to explain the reflection of historical changes in contemporary Czech. Generalisation of the acquired knowledge for the definition of the basic natural relations of the language development.
Syllabus
  • 1 The evolution of the phonologic system of Czech from the Common Slavonic language. The Czech reflexes replacing the Common Slavonic / Proto-Slavic sounds (nasal sounds, jers and others). Old Czech sound contractions. 2 Reading the Old Czech texts of the 14th and the 15th century. Comparison of phonological systems of the13th and 14th centuries. Sound changes occurring in the 14th century, its evidence in the texts. 3 Introduction to the grammar system of Czech in the 14th and 15th centuries. 4 Old Czech declension paradigms, their comparison with the Modern Czech paradigms. Declensions of nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and numerals. Old Czech conjugation, the classification of verbs into verbal categories. 5 The knowledge of the evolution of the Czech phonologic and morphologic systems is a way to understand the historical reasons of the contemporary language phenomena. 6 Syntactic phenomena in the Czech manuscripts from the 14th century. Study the evolution of conjunctions. Examples of the evolution of the most frequent conjunctions.
Literature
  • LAMPRECHT, Arnošt, Dušan ŠLOSAR and Jaroslav BAUER. Historická mluvnice češtiny. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1986, 423 s. URL info
  • PORÁK, Jaroslav. Chrestomatie k vývoji českého jazyka (13.-18. století). Edited by Václav Křístek. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1979, 407 s. URL info
  • BĚLIČ, Jaromír, Adolf KAMIŠ, Karel KUČERA and Václav KŘÍSTEK. Malý staročeský slovník. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1979, 707 s. URL info
  • KOMÁREK, Miroslav. Historická mluvnice česká. Edited by Karel Horálek. Vydání 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1958, 177 stran. URL info
Teaching methods
A seminar, active analytical students´ work in the analysis of Old Czech texts, active synthetic students´ work in the interpretation of linguistic phenomena, discussion about the professional course issues.
Assessment methods
For a successful completion of the course, the students should 1.complete a written examen, where they freely formulate their answers and questions. The test is scored. 2. a seminar paper should be submitted – a language analysis of the selected section of an Old Czech text
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: počet hodin konzultací v semestru.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022.
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