BA402F Finnish Language Structure Advanced Course II

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
1/0. 3 credit(s) (plus 1 credit for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Jan Čermák, CSc. (lecturer), doc. RNDr. Tomáš Hoskovec, CSc. (deputy)
Mgr. Petra Hebedová, Ph.D. (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Tomáš Hoskovec, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Tomáš Hoskovec, CSc.
Timetable
Fri 11:40–13:15 A31 stara
Prerequisites
BA401F
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
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to understand and explain the historical development of the functional system of the Finnish language and socio-cultural aspects of it's use in Finland and abroad.
Syllabus
  • I. Overview of the grammatical and derivative system of the colloquial Finnish. II. The history of Finnish as the national language. III. Finnish as the national language in Finland and in the world, dialectical differences. IV. Self-reflection of the Finnish: most important grammars, most recent descriptions of the grammatical system.
Literature
  • A.Sauvageot: L'Élaboration de la langue finnoise. Paris 1973
  • Sulkala et Karjalainen: Finnish. Routledge, London & New York 2002
  • LINDROOS, Hilkka Annikki. Finština nejen pro samouky. Vyd. 1. Praha: Leda, 2002, 344 s. ISBN 8073350009. info
  • LINDROOS, Hilkka Annikki. Finské postpozice. Vyd. 1. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 1997, 237 s. ISBN 807184036X. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, class discussion, reading.
Assessment methods
Students, who study Finnish as the main subject, must go thru a written and oral exam. Students with the Lithuanian as their main subject have to write a shorter written test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021.
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