OJ405 Morphosyntax of the Indo-European languages

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2014
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. RNDr. Tomáš Hoskovec, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Eva Křivánková (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Tomáš Hoskovec, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 10:50–12:25 U27
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The main objectives of the course is to introduce students to the typological view of the ontogenesis of ancient Indo-European languages by individual paradigmatizations of their grammatical systems.
Syllabus
  • 1) Philological reality of old Indo-European languages 2) What's possible and what's not ti re-construct. Particularities of the plan de l'expression and the plan de contenu 3) Two stadia of the inflectional type: derivational and paradigmatical. 4) Paradigmatisation of the predicate relation. 5) Paradigmatisation of verbal inflection. 6) Paradigmatisation of nominal inflection.
Literature
  • BENVENISTE, Émile. Les origines de la formation des noms en indo-européen (1935)
  • BENVENISTE, Émile. Noms d'agent et noms d'action en indo-européen (1948)
  • BENVENISTE, Émile. Vocabulaire des institutions indo-européennes I, II (1969)
  • KURZOVÁ, Helena. From Indo-European to Latin : the evolution of a morphosyntactic type. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1993, xv, 259. ISBN 1556195583. info
  • BARTONĚK, Antonín. Studium staré řečtiny, latiny a středověké latiny. Edited by Elena Marečková - Čeněk Prutký - Hana Reichová - Helena Kurzová. 1985, 112 s. info
  • KURZOVÁ, Helena. Der Relativsatz in den indoeuropäischen Sprachen. Praha: Academia, 1981, 117 s. info
  • KURZOVÁ, Helena. Zur syntaktischen Struktur des griechischen (Infinitiv und Nebensatz). 1. vyd. Prag: Academia, 1968, 126 s. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
Written examination consisting of 5 questions focusing on the basic notions of the discipline.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Information on completion of the course: Předpokladem ke zkoušce je prokázat, že student s porozuměním přečetl Íliadu.
The course is taught once in two years.
General note: Student má vedle toho, co vyplývá z výuky, ještě povinnost přečíst - ne nutně v originále, zato však celou - Íliadu, aby poznal nějaký ohlas indoevropského světa.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Spring 2008, Autumn 2009, Spring 2011, Autumn 2012.
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