FF:UZROMA101 Introduction to Vulgar Latin - Course Information

UZROMA101 Introduction to Vulgar Latin

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

PhDr. Jan Pavlík (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. Ladislava Miličková, CSc.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Dagmar Holoubková

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

• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in French Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS3)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in French Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in French Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS3)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Italian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS3)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Italian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Italian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS3)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Portuguese Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS3)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Portuguese Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Portuguese Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS3)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Spanish Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS3)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Spanish Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Spanish Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS3)

Course objectives

Vulgar Latin and the birth of Romance languages.

Syllabus

• Classification of Indo-European languages with regard to the Italic languages; pre-Indo-Europeans and Indo-Europeans in the Mediterranean; Italics in the Apennine peninsula; Latins in Latium; from archaic to classical Latin; main phonetic, morphological, syntactical and lexical differences between classical and vulgar Latin; romanization; bilingualism; substratum, superstratum, adstratum; a classification of linguistic changes; analysis of relevant texts (Appendix Probi, glossaries, etc.).

Literature

• OSTRÁ, Růžena. Přehled vývoje románských jazyků. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1980, 130 s. info
• ŠABRŠULA, Jan. Úvod do srovnávacího studia románských jazyků. Praha, 1980. info
• TAGLIAVINI, Carlo. Le origini delle lingue neolatine. Bologna, 1969. info
• DEVOTO, Giacomo. La storia della lingua di Roma. Bologna, 1969. info
• GRANDGENT, Charles H. From Latin to Italian. Cambridge, 1927. info

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Zkouška se skládá ze dvou částí: 1) z písemného testu z klasické latiny v rozsahu 50 lekcí učebnice pro střední školy (Špaňár-Kettner) 2) z ústní části, k níž budou připuštěni pouze ti posluchači, kteří uspějí u písemného testu.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

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