Vv11 Sino-Vietnamese

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024

The course is not taught in Autumn 2024

Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Michal Schwarz, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Michal Schwarz, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Michal Schwarz, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
no requirements
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 course goal is to explain various historical layers of Chinese words and loanwords in Vietnamese language. Each layer has special phonetic features according to specific time of use or borrowing. Other indicators are main semantic fields of Sinovietnamese vocabulary related to sociolinguistic data and outer history of language contacts.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course a student will:
- be able to distinguish the oldest, classical, and modern layers of Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary
- know phonetic development of Chinese language
- know main semantic fields of particular layers
- know outer history and types of contacs between Chinese and Vietnamese languages
Syllabus
  • 1. History of research
  • 2. Main works
  • 3. methodology of indication - typological differences of Chinese and Vietnamese
  • 4. Sinovietnamese vocabulary - main divisions
  • 5. Examples of words
  • 6. Historical development of Chinese (with examples)
  • 7. Historical development of Vietnamese (with examples)
  • 8. Special phonetic features of borrowings
  • 9. Semantic fields of Sinovietnamese vocabulary
  • 10. Sociolinguistical data
  • 11. Outer history of language contacts
  • 12. Vocabulary of modern loanwords
  • 13. Co-occurrence of older and modern borrowing of same lexical units
Literature
  • Ulving, Tor. 1997. Dictionary of Old and Middle Chinese. Bernahrd Karlgren’s Grammata Serica Recensa Alphabetically Arranged. Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis.
  • Davidson, Jeremy H.C. 1975. A New version of the Chinese-Vietnamese vocabulary of the Ming dynasty. BSOAS 38/2.
  • NGUYỄN, Văn Khang. 2013. Từ ngoại lai trong tiếng Việt. TP Hồ Chí Minh: Nhà xuất bản Tổng hợp Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh.
  • Schuessler, Axel. 2007. ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
  • Lê Đình Khẩn. 2002. Từ vựng gốc hán trong tiếng Việt. The Stock of the Sino-original Vocabulary in Vietnamese. TP. Hồ Chí Minh: Nhà xuất bản Đại học quốc gia TP. Hồ Chí Minh.
  • Trương Văn Chinh. 1970. Structure de la langue vietnamienne. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale.
  • Alves, Mark J. 2007. “Categories of Grammatical Sino-Vietnamese Vocabulary” in Mon-Khmer Studies, Vol. 37, 217-229.
  • Baxter, William H., Sagart, Laurent. 2014. Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Shorto, Harry. 2006. A Mon-Khmer Comparative Dictionary. Eds. Paul Sidwell et al. Canberra: Australian National University – Pacific Linguistics.
  • Pulleyblank, Edwin G. 1981. Some notes on Chinese historical phonology. Bulletin de l’Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient, Tome 69, pp. 277-288.
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
Students of the study programme Vietnamese Studies: 1) in the two thirds of the course: written test - at least 50 % of correct answers is needed to pass for final written examination; + 2) final written examination: at least 70 % of correct answers is required to pass the course. Students of other study programmes: only final written examination is compulsory: at least 50 % of correct answers is needed to pass the course.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every other week.
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