NJ2RC_6HIS Historical Development and Contemporary Tendencies of German

Faculty of Education
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/0/30. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Mojmír Muzikant, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Káňa, Ph.D.
Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Helena Rytířová
Prerequisites
succesfull completion of 5th term
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim is to get acqainted with the language in a diachronic dimension. The attention is focussed on the characterization of language from the point of territorial and time division. The participants are familiarised with the most important phonetic and morphological rarities that are typical for single historical periods of German language development.
Syllabus
  • - the most important features of Primitive Germanic - territorial and time devision of German - the first shift - the second shift - phonetics withing the tranfer from old upper German to middle upper German - the phonetic rarities of early new upper German - the system of weak verbs - the system of strong verbs - the balancing tendencies in phonetics of early new upper German Credit Requirements: regular and active participation on seminars, colloquium form of the exam.
Literature
  • MASAŘÍK, Zdeněk and Vlastimil BROM. Historische Entwicklung des Deutschen: Übersichtstabellen - Kommentare - Textproben (Historical Development of German - Tables - Comments - Texts). Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2005, 129 pp. 1. Vyd. ISBN 80-210-3696-6. info
  • SCHMIDT, Wilhelm. Geschichte der deutschen Sprache :ein Lehrbuch für das germanistische Studium. Edited by Helmut Langner. 7., verb. Aufl. Stuttgart: S. Hirzel, 1996, 383 s. ISBN 3-7776-0720-7. info
  • FREY, Evelyn. Einführung in die Historische Sprachwissenschaft des Deutschen :Lehr- und Übungsbuch der diachronen Linguistik mit ausführlichen Darstellungen zur Bifurkationstheorie. Heidelberg: Julius Groos Verlag, 1994, viii, 146. ISBN 3-87276-700-3. info
Assessment methods
Regular and active participation in seminars, knowledge from the problematics on the basis of colloquy
Language of instruction
German
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: konzulatace.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012.
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