FF:RJB420 Historical Development of Russ - Course Information

RJB420 Historical Development of Russian

Extent and Intensity

2/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

doc. PhDr. Aleš Brandner, CSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.

Timetable

Tue 8:20–9:55 A41 stara and each even Thursday 16:40–18:15 A43 stara

Prerequisites (in Czech)

PLB400 Old Church Slavonic

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

• Russian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
• Russian Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)

Course objectives

The subject tries to enlighten the principles and reasons giving answers what the differences in grammatical structure of Russian and Czech language are emerging from. The subject consists of two disciplines: The historic grammar of the Russian language and the history of the Russian literary language. In the course of lessons of the historic grammar the most important changes in development of phonemic system are being explained first. The introduction into the historic development of the separate word class follows thereafter. Then the brief survey of the evolution of the syntax is mentioned. In the framework of the lessons on history of the Russian literary language the students are acquainted with the development of the literary language. The span from Christianity adoption (10 century) up to present time is gradually covered. One semester lecturing cycle is closed with a brief survey of the vocabulary and graphic system development, then also with a list of some written ancient artifacts and with some data from Russian dialectology. The seminar work represents the lecture matter extension. The selected problems are exercised. They all are verified on a broad documenting material. Students can be thus informed about paleographic, linguistic and textual problematic of Old Russian texts. Their many-sided analysis is carried with the respect to comparison with current situation of the Russian language. The attention is also given to the analysis of the modern Russian texts. This is important as long as the historic commentary on the selected phonemic features should be done.

Syllabus

• 1) Russian language and its historic periods; most important significant features of East-Slavic branch. 2) Historic phonology; Collapse of “yers”; Development of soft-hard consonantal correlation; I, y phonemes; Processes of depalatalisation. 3) Development of prosodic tools; “Akanie”, “ikanie” and their origin; Depalatalisation e>o; Ô and ě phonemes; Phonemes f and g and their history; “Tsokanie”, “Chokanie”, “Dzekanie”, “Tsekanie”. 4) Reflexion of Greek phonetic phenomena in Russian language. 5) Historic morphology; Substantives; General tendencies and rules in declination of Old Russian substantives; Declination of Old Russian substantives and their paradigms. 6) Adjectives; Differences in use of nominal and compound forms in Old Russian; Unification of forms in plural; Possessive adjectives; Comparatives making; Pronouns in Old Russian: personal; reflexive, demonstrative, possessive, determinative, interrogative, relative, indefinite, negative; Development of numerals as a word class; Development of cardinal, indefinite, ordinal, collective and fractional numerals; Etymology of cardinal numerals. 7) Thematic and athematic verbs; Forms of present, past and future temps; Relation of verbal mode and a category of time; Imperative and conjunctive making; Development of participles and deverbative adjectives. 8) Adverbs; Etymology of the most frequent adverbs in contemporary Russian language; Primal and derived prepositions and their origin; Particles; Kinds of particles and their etymology; Conjunctions: coordinating, coordinative; Old Russian conjunctions and their functioning in statement; Interjection and its origin and development. 9) Historic syntax; Type of statements typical for contemporary Russian language – their genesis; Ways of dezagentivation expressing; Modality of statement; Clauses of statement; Desemantization of common cases; Their changes due to prepositional cases; Ttransgressive and participial idioms; Absolute dative; Types of sentences in Old Russian; Indirect speech. 10) History and development of Russian language; Opinions on Russian language origin; Literary language in the period of Russian nationality; so-called II South Slavic influence; Formation of contemporary Russian literary language; 11) Historic development of Russian vocabulary; Autochthonic vocabulary and borrowings; Church-Slavonic elements in contemporary Russian; Development of graphic system; Types of Russian lettering; Ways of text writing; Numbers denotation; Book print; Reforms of writing and orthography; era and calendar; Ways of indicating time (era) in Old Russian written artifacts; East-Slaves and their calendar development. 12) Old Russian written artifacts – source for Old Russian language study; Great Moravian and Bohemian church-Slavonic artifacts in Old Russia. 13) Basic facts from Russian dialectology; significant features of Nord-Russian, Middle-Russian and South-Russian dialects; Modern transformations of Russian dialects – gradual los of differences among Russian dialects.

Literature

• Uspenskij, B. A.: Istorija russkogo literaturnogo jazyka (XI-XVII vv.). München 19871, Budapest 19882.
• Kožin, A. N.: Literaturnyj jazyk Moskovskoj Rusi. Moskva, 1984.
• Jefimov, A. I.: Istorija russkogo literaturnogo jazyka. Moskva, 1957.
• Kožin, A. N.: Istorija russkogo literaturnogo jazyka (Kijevskaja Rus). Moskva, 1972.
• Chaburgajev, G. A.: Očerki istoričeskoj morfologii russkogo jazyka. Imena. Moskva, 1990.
• POPOVA, Galina Vladimirovna and Roman MRÁZEK. Historický vývoj ruštiny. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1984, 162 s. info
• IVANOV, Valerij Vasil'jevič. Istoričeskaja grammatika russkogo jazyka : dlja studentov filologičeskich special'nostej universitetov i pedagogičeskich institutov. Moskva: Prosveščenije, 1983. info
• GORŠKOVA, Klavdija Vasil'jevna and Georgij Aleksandrovič CHABURGAJEV. Istoričeskaja grammatika russkogo jazyka : dlja studentov filologičeskich special'nostej universitetov. Moskva: Vysšaja škola, 1981. info
• MRHAČOVÁ, Eva. Vývoj ruského jazyka. Vyd. 1. Ostrava: Pedagogická fakulta Ostravské univerzity, 1981, 206 s. info
• STECENKO, A. N. Istoričeskij sintaksis russkogo jazyka : dlja studentov filologičeskich special'nostej universitetov i pedagogičeskich institutov. Moskva: Vysšaja škola, 1972, 359 s. info
• ULUCHANOV, Igor‘ Stepanovič. O jazyke drevnej Rusi. Moskva: Nauka, 1972. info
• ŠKLJAREVSKIJ, Georgij Ivanovič. Istorija russkogo literaturnogo jazyka : vtoraja polovina XVIII-XIX vek : cikl lekcij. Char'kov: Izdatel'stvo Char'kovskogo universiteta, 1967. info
• BORKOVSKIJ, Viktor Ivanovič and Petr Savvič KUZNECOV. Istoričeskaja grammatika russkogo jazyka. Moskva: Nauka, 1965. info
• GORŠKOV, Aleksandr Ivanovič. Istorija russkogo literaturnogo jazyka : kratkij kurs lekcij. Moskva: Vysšaja škola, 1961. info
• ČERNYCH, Pavel Jakovlevič. Istoričeskaja grammatika russkogo jazyka : kratkij očerk : posobije dlja pedagogičeskich institutov. Izd. 2. Moskva: Gosudarstvennoje učebno-pedagogičeskoje izdatel'stvo Ministerstva prosveščenija RSFSR, 1954, 335 s. info
• JAKUBINSKIJ, Lev Petrovič. Istorija drevnerusskogo jazyka. Moskva: Gosudarstvennoje učebno-pedagogičeskoje izdatel'stvo Ministerstva prosveščenija RSFSR, 1953. info

Assessment methods

Students who sign them in the subject are supposed to go for the lectures regularly. One semester discipline is closed with the oral exam. Those who will submit the written paper fortnight before the end of the semester will be allowed to sit for the exam.

Language of instruction

Russian

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.

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