BA121 The Fenno-Ugric languages from a historico-cultural perspective

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2016
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Michal Kovář, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Bohumil Fořt, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 14:10–15:45 K21
Prerequisites
The course is intended not only for students of Baltic Studies and General Linguistics, however, it demands at least basic knowledge of linguistic terminology and/or of a Uralic language. The optimal level is more than 3 semesters of Estonian or Finnish.
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
At the end of the course students should be able to name the languages of the Fenno-Ugric family and their relationships within it, then to express the base for defining such family, to demonstrate it, distinguish between adequate and inadequate categories in such comparison, formulate the principles helping a language becoming a national language and evaluate a social, political and cultural position of a language. Main objectives can be summarized as follows: under which conditions might the Fenno-Ugric language family be defined?; how language phenomena correlate with cultural and historical phenomena?
Syllabus
  • The language family term and special features of the Fenno-Ugric language family. The main European groups, Fennic and Ugric; their division by isoglosses. Historical evidences; character and content of the oldest sources. History of modern languages' rise. Characteristic features of particular language systems.
Literature
    required literature
  • BLAŽEK, Václav. O klasifikaci samojedských jazyků (On the classification of Samoyedic languages). Linguistica Brunensia. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, vol. 62, No 2, p. 57-85. ISSN 1803-7410. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
  • BLAŽEK, Václav and Michal KOVÁŘ. Z historie uralistiky II. (polovina 19. st. - současnost) (From the history of the Uralic studies (the half of the 19th century - present day)). Linguistica Brunensia. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, vol. 62, No 1, p. 155-179. ISSN 1803-7410. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
  • BLAŽEK, Václav and Lucie HOFÍRKOVÁ. Osobní zájmena ve fino-sámských jazycích v uralské perspektivě (Personal Pronouns in Finno-Saamic languages). Linguistica Brunensia. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013, roč. 61, č. 1-2, p. 89-108. ISSN 1803-7410. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
  • BLAŽEK, Václav. Po stopách raných migrací etnik hovořících uralskými jazyky : (v perspektivě lingvistické paleontologie) (Tracing early migrations of ethnics speaking Uralic languages). Linguistica Brunensia. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013, roč. 61, č. 1-2, p. 81-87. ISSN 1803-7410. info
  • BLAŽEK, Václav and Michal KOVÁŘ. Z historie uralistiky – pionýrské období (9. stol. – 1850) (From the history of the Uralic studies - the pioneer period (9th cent. - 1850)). Linguistica Brunensia. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013, roč. 61, č. 1-2, p. 273-292. ISSN 1803-7410. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
  • BLAŽEK, Václav and Lucie HOFÍRKOVÁ. Jmenná deklinace fino-sámských jazyků v urgofinské perspektivě (Nominal declension of the Fenno-Saamic language in the Fenno-Ugric perspective). Linguistica Brunensia. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012, roč. 60, č. 1-2, p. 127-146. ISSN 1803-7410. info
  • BLAŽEK, Václav and Lucie HOFÍRKOVÁ. Ke klasifikaci ugrofinských jazyků (On classification of the Fenno-Ugric languages). Linguistica Brunensia. Bno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012, roč. 60, č. 1-2, p. 85-126. ISSN 1803-7410. info
    recommended literature
  • Rein Taagepera: The Fenno-Ugric Republics and the Russian State
  • BERECZKI, Gábor. Bevezetés a balti finn nyelvészetbe. Budapest: Universitas Könyvkiadó, 2000, 119 s. ISBN 9639104361. info
  • The Uralic languages. Edited by Daniel Mario Abondolo. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 1998, xxiv, 619. ISBN 9780415412643. info
  • The Uralic languages : description, history and foreign influences. Edited by Denis Sinor. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1988, xx, 841. ISBN 9004077413. info
Teaching methods
Lectures and homeworks - reading, essay
Assessment methods
Written test, an essay on history of a "small" East-European Uralic language - the first written evidences, standardizing of orthography, elementary descriptive grammar...
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2007, Autumn 2008, Spring 2010, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021.
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