PdF:NJ2RC_6HIS Development of German - Course Information

NJ2RC_6HIS Historical Development and Contemporary Tendencies of German

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

successful completion of the previous term

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

• Extension of Teaching Qualification for another subject (programme PdF, C-CV, specialization Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in German Language and Literature)
• ZS1 German Language and Literature Teacher Education for Lower Secondary Schools (programme PdF, C-CV)

Course objectives

At the end of tuition students have extensive knowledge about phonetics and morphology of German language from the diachronic point of view. Students are able to classify historical texts into particular development stages according to their characteristic phonic and morphological features. Students are able to explain irregularities in phonetics and morphology of current German on basis of gained knowledge of historical language development.

Syllabus

• the most important features of Primitive Germanic regional and temporal division of German the first shift the second shift phonic within the transfer from old upper German do middle upper German early newupper German phonic rarities the system of strong verbs the system of weak verbs early newupper German leveling tendencies in the morphology analysis of the example of the text from the time of old upper German, middle upper German and early upper German

Literature

• Masařík, Zdeněk/Brom, Vlastimil: Historische Entwicklung des Deutschen. Brno 2005: MU.
• Frey, Evelyn: Einführung in die Historische Sprachwissenschaft des Deutschen. Heidelberg 1994: Groos.

Teaching methods

Seminar

Assessment methods

Oral exam

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.

• Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2010, recent)
  
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