PdF:CJ2RC_JHMC Historical Grammar of Czech - Course Information
CJ2RC_JHMC Historical Grammar of Czech Language
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/.8. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Hana Svobodová, Dr. phil. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- PhDr. Ivana Kolářová, CSc.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Petra Rozbořilová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education - 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
- DAP Czech Language and Literature Teacher Education for Lower Secondary Schools (programme PdF, C-CV)
- 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.
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of the course, the students will be able: 1. to understand an Old Czech text; 2. to convert an Old Czech text into a Modern Czech version; 3. to explain Modern Czech phenomena as a result the historical development of Czech; 4. to define basic principles 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. Detailed requirements are available in each term in Study Materials of the course in the Information System MU, the folder Learning Materials.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 10 hodin v semestru.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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