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

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2015
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
Thu 17:30–19:05 U22
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
  • Bereczki Gábor: Bevezetés a balti finn nyelvészetbe.
  • Daniel Abondolo: The Uralic Languages
  • Rein Taagepera: The Fenno-Ugric Republics and the Russian State
  • 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, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021.
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