RJc004 Historical Development of Russian 1

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/0/1. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Bc. Oxana Truhlářová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Mgr. Simona Koryčánková, Ph.D.
Department of Russian Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Helena Rytířová
Supplier department: Department of Russian Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable
Sat 25. 9. 9:00–12:50 respirium (5. nadzemní podlaží), Sat 2. 10. 9:00–11:50 učebna 64, Sat 9. 10. 9:00–11:50 respirium (5. nadzemní podlaží), Sat 16. 10. 9:00–10:50 respirium (5. nadzemní podlaží)
Prerequisites
Knowledge of Russian language at the level B2-C1
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 goal is to provide a comprehensive overview of Russian historical transformations, focusing on the development of phonological, morphological and syntactic system. The attention will also be paid to the comparative aspects of Russian and Czech languages.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student will be able to identify important diachronic changes in the phonological system of Russian language; to analyze morphological phenomena and syntactic structures of contemporary Russian in diachronic perspective; to use the acquired knowledge to interpretation of grammatical phenomena from comparative Russian-Czech point of view.
Syllabus
  • Object and basic concepts of discipline Development of Russian language. Development of Russian graphic system. Chronology of development of Russian language. Old Church Slavonic and its relation to Russian.
  • The most important characteristics of East Slavic language group. Historical phonology.
  • Disappearance of yers. Formation of akanye and ikanye. History of phonems "ф" and "г".
  • Historical morphology. Nouns. General tendencies and regularities in declension of Old Russian nouns.
  • Adjectives. Differences in the use of short and full forms in Old Russian. Unification of plural forms. Comparative forms.
  • Pronouns in Old Russian language.
  • Development of numerals. Etymology of numerals.
  • Verbs. Present, past and future tenses in Old Russian language. Category of tense and category of aspect.
  • Imperative and conditional. Participles and transgressive.
  • Syntactic words.
  • Historical syntax.
Literature
    required literature
  • MRÁZEK, R. - POPOVA, G. V. Historický vývoj ruštiny. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013
  • VEČERKA, Radoslav. Staroslověnština v kontextu slovanských jazyků (Old Church Slavonic in the context of Slavonic languages). Olomouc; Praha: Univerzita Palackého; Euroslavica, 2006, 273 pp. Univerzita Palackého Olomouc. ISBN 80-244-0889-9. info
  • VEČERKA, Radoslav. Základy slovanské filologie a staroslověnštiny. 4. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1996, 112 stran. ISBN 8021013753. info
  • GORŠKOVA, Klavdija Vasil'jevna and Georgij Aleksandrovič CHABURGAJEV. Istoričeskaja grammatika russkogo jazyka : dlja studentov filologičeskich special'nostej universitetov. Moskva: Vysšaja škola, 1981. info
    recommended literature
  • VEČERKA, Radoslav. Slovanská jazykověda a paleoslovenistika (Slavonic linguistics and Old Church Slavonic). PLESKALOVÁ, J., KARLÍK, P., KRČMOVÁ, M. a VEČERKA, R. (ed.). In Kapitoly z dějin české jazykovědné bohemistiky. Praha: Academia, 2007, p. 626-663. Academia 1. ISBN 978-80-200-1523-5. info
  • ŽURAVLEV, Vladimir Konstantinovič. Teorija gruppofonem : razvitije gruppovogo singarmonizma v praslavjanskom jazyke. Edited by Jurij Jakovlevič Burmistrovič. Moskva: URSS, 2007, 124 s. ISBN 9785382002385. info
  • KOLESOV, Vladimir Viktorovič. Istorija russkogo jazyka v rasskazach. 3-e izd. Sankt-Peterburg: Azbuka-klassika, 2005, 221 s. ISBN 5352014088. info
  • Russkij jazyk : enciklopedija. Edited by Jurij Nikolajevič Karaulov. Moskva: Bol'šaja rossijskaja enciklopedija, 2003, 703 s. ISBN 5710774308. info
  • VEČERKA, Radoslav. Počátky slovanského spisovného jazyka : studie z dějin staroslověnského písemnictví a jazyka do konce 11. století. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 1999, 103 s. ISBN 8085899604. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, theoretical preparation for lectures.
Assessment methods
Oral colloquium (theoretical topics, terminology, practical analysis).
Language of instruction
Russian
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, autumn 2020, Autumn 2022.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2021, recent)
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