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

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2013
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Michal Kovář, Ph.D. (lecturer)
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: Mgr. Michal Kovář, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Fri 9:10–10:45 G24
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
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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
  • 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
  • HONKO, Lauri, Senni TIMONEN and Michael BRANCH. The great bear : a thematic anthology of oral poetry in the Finno-Ugrian languages. Translated by Keith Bosley. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 1993, 787 s. ISBN 9517176317. info
  • The Uralic languages : description, history and foreign influences. Edited by Denis Sinor. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1988, xx, 841. ISBN 9004077413. info
  • DOMOKOS, Péter. Itäisten suomalais-ugrilaisten kansojen kirjallisuudesta. Edited by Tuomo Lahdelma. [Helsinki]: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 1983, 179 s. ISBN 9517173059. info
  • HAJDÚ, Péter. Finno-Ugrian languages and peoples. Translated by G. F. Cushing. 1st pub. London: André Deutsch, 1975, 254 s. ISBN 0233965521. 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.
Information about innovation of course.
This course has been innovated under the project "Faculty of Arts as Centre of Excellence in Education: Complex Innovation of Study Programmes and Fields at FF MU with Regard to the Requirements of the Knowledge Economy“ – Reg. No. CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0228, which is cofinanced by the European Social Fond and the national budget of the Czech Republic.

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