CJBB121 Fundamentals of Slavonic studies

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Ilona Janyšková, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Mgr. Pavel Kosek, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jaroslava Vybíralová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 12:00–13:40 D31, except Tue 14. 11.
Prerequisites
The lecture is aimed especially at students simultaneously taking the course CJJ07 Proto-Slavonic.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 60 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 14/60, only registered: 0/60, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/60
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Main aims of the lecture are:
- characterization of phonological and morphological structures of Proto-Slavonic – the reconstructed proto-language of the Slavs,
- main developmental processes that led to the origin of Slavonic languages,
- classification of contemporary Slavonic languages,
- elementary orientation is scholarly sources relating to Slavonic studies.
Learning outcomes
Having participated in the course, students will be able:
- to explain processes in language that led to the origin of Proto-Slavonic after the split of the Indo-European proto-language,
- to classify contemporary Slavonic languages on both diachronic (historically-comparative) and synchronic (typological, areal or sociolinguistic) bases,
- to describe historical circumstances of the origin of the first Slavonic language,
- to explain the origin and development of Slavonic systems of script.
Syllabus
  • 1. The subject of Slavonic studies.
  • 2. History of Slavonic linguistics – selected parts.
  • 3. Slavonic languages and their stratification.
  • 4. Slavonic script.
  • 5. From Proto-Indo European language to Proto-Slavonic.
  • 6. Baltic-Slavonic language unit.
  • 7. Proto-Slavonic phonology.
  • 8. Proto-Slavonic inflectional morphology (declension).
  • 9. Proto-Slavonic inflectional morphology (conjugation).
  • 10. Dialectal differentiation of Proto-Slavonic.
Literature
  • PETR, Jan. Základy slavistiky. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1984
  • Rehder, Peter. Einführung in die slavischen Sprachen (mit einer Einführung in die Balkanphilologie). 3. vyd. Darmstadt : Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1998.
  • SUSSEX, Roland - CUBBERLEY, Paul V. The Slavic languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-521-22315-7.
  • Poljakov, Oleg. Slavjanskije jazyki. Osnovnyje osobennosti. Parallel’nyje teksty. Vilnius 1998.
  • Nový encyklopedický slovník češtiny. Edited by Petr Karlík - Marek Nekula - Jana Pleskalová. První vydání. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2016, Strana 110. ISBN 9788074224829. info
  • VEČERKA, Radoslav. Jazyky v komparaci 2: Charakteristiky současných slovanských jazyků v historickém kontextu (Languages in comparison, Vol. 2 (Characteristics of Slavonic Languages in historical context.)). Praha: Euroslavica, 2009, 148 pp. ISBN 978-80-85494-87-7. info
  • Kapitoly z dějin české jazykovědné bohemistiky. Edited by Jana Pleskalová - Marie Krčmová - Radoslav Večerka - Petr Karlík. Vydání první. Praha: Academia, 2007, 683 stran. ISBN 9788020015235. info
  • 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
  • The Slavonic languages. Edited by Bernard Comrie - Greville G. Corbett. 1st pub. in pbk. London: Routledge, 2002, xiii, 1078. ISBN 9780415280785. info
  • VEČERKA, Radoslav. Základy slovanské filologie a staroslověnštiny (Introduction to Slavonic philology and Old Church Slavonic). 5th ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2002, 112 pp. ISBN 80-210-2961-7. info
  • ČERNÝ, J. Dějiny lingvistiky. Praha: Votobia, 1996. info
  • LAMPRECHT, Arnošt. Praslovanština. Vyd. 1. V Brně: Univerzita J.E. Purkyně, 1987, 196 s. URL info
  • HORÁLEK, Karel. Úvod do studia slovanských jazyků. 2., dopl. vyd. Praha: Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1962, 535 s. URL info
Teaching methods
Lecture; class discussion; reading (assigned scholarly materials).
Assessment methods
To fulfil the requirements for the colloquium, it is necessary to succeed in a written test relating to the topics dealt with (at least 51 % of the points).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2024.
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