CJA003 Old Church Slavonic for the Students of Czech, Pt. I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Ilona Janyšková, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. Mgr. Pavel Kosek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jana Pleskalová, CSc.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jaroslava Vybíralová
Timetable of Seminar Groups
CJA003/A: Tue 8:20–9:55 B11, I. Janyšková
CJA003/B: Tue 10:00–11:35 B11, I. Janyšková
CJA003/C: Mon 10:00–11:35 B31, P. Kosek
CJA003/D: Wed 11:40–13:15 B11, P. Kosek
Prerequisites
Students are recommended to attend simultaneously the lecture CJBB121 Úvod do slavistiky I.
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 seminar is focused on Proto-Slavonic as a common predecessor of Slavonic languages and on tendencies of development on the individual Slavonic languages. The stress is on the development of Proto- Slavonic phonology and morphology as well as on the origin and development of Slavonic script. At the end of the course students should be able to reconstruct the Proto-Slavonic form of a word, to transform the reconstructed Proto-Slavonic form into forms existing in the individual Slavonic languages, to decline Old Church Slavonic nouns, to read Old Church Slavonic texts written in Cyrillic, to provide an elementary philological interpretation and transliteration.
Syllabus
  • 1. Slavonic studies past and present. Classification of Slavonic languages. 2. The rise of the first written Slavonic language and its script. 3. Causes of language change (divergence and convergence), comparative method. 4. Nostratic hypothesis, Indo-European theory, disintegration of Proto-Indo-European language. 5. Balto-Slavic proto-language (Balto-Slavic language community?), Proto-Slavic. 6. The main Phonological-laws of Proto-Slavic. 7. Palatalization. 8. "Law of Open Syllables" (change of syllabic structure: from lower to higher sonority). 9. Prosody of Proto-Slavic. Less of Vowel quantity. 10. The rise of dialectal differences of Proto-Slavic. 11. Phonological system of Old Church Slavonic. 12. Phonological changes of late Proto-Slavic (contraction, loss of weak yers, denasalisation). 13. Slavic grammar categories. Declension of nouns.
Literature
  • VEČERKA, Radoslav. Staroslověnština v kontextu slovanských jazyků (Old Church Slavonic in the context of Slavonic languages). Olomouc; Praha: Univerzita Palackého; Euroslavica, 2006, 273 pp. Univerzita Palackého Olomouc. ISBN 80-244-0889-9. info
  • Pallasová, Eva. Texty ke studiu jazyka staroslověnského. 1. vyd. Brno : Vydavatelství Masarykovy univerzity, 2004.
  • VEČERKA, Radoslav. Staroslověnské texty. Brno: Masarykova univerzita Brno, 1996, 195 pp. ISBN 80-210-0818-0. info
  • VEČERKA, Radoslav. Základy slovanské filologie a staroslověnštiny [Večerka, 2002]. 5. nezměn. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2002, 112 s. ISBN 80-201-2961-7. info
  • VEČERKA, Radoslav. Staroslověnština. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1984, 231 s. info
  • PETR, Jan. Základy slavistiky. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1984, 143 s. info
  • KURZ, Josef. Učebnice jazyka staroslověnského. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1969, 233 s., 4. info
  • LAMPRECHT, Arnošt. Praslovanština. Vyd. 1. V Brně: Univerzita J.E. Purkyně, 1987, 196 s. URL info
  • HORÁLEK, Karel. Úvod do studia slovanských jazyků. 1. vyd. Praha: Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1955, 487 s. info
Teaching methods
The methods used include lectures, class discussions, homework, reading texts in Old Church Slavonic and assigned scholarly materials, drills. The seminars continuously check students’ abilities, knowledge and skills acquired during their individual preparations.
Assessment methods
To receive the credits, 1. regular attendance and active articipation in classes is required (during the term, students’ knowledge is checked in both oral and written forms), 2. it is necessary to succeed in the final test; the test consists of open questions and is based on the topics dealt with (see above); to succeed, it is necessary to reach at least 70% of the points.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Information on completion of the course: Zápočet se uděluje na základě úspěšného zvládnutí písemného testu.
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1998, Autumn 1999, Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019.
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