FF:BA120 History of Baltic Languages - Course Information
BA120 History of Baltic Languages
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2017
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0. 3 credit(s) (maximum: 12 credits). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mag. Vaidas Šeferis, Dr. phil. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Bohumil Fořt, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mag. Vaidas Šeferis, Dr. phil.
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Wed 17:30–19:05 U25
- 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
- Baltic Languages and Literatures (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Baltic Languages and Literatures (programme FF, B-HS)
- Bulgarian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Bulgarian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Philological Area Studies (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Philological Area Studies (programme FF, B-HS)
- History (programme FF, B-BI)
- History (programme FF, B-FY)
- History (programme FF, B-GE)
- History (programme FF, B-GK)
- History (programme FF, B-HI) (2)
- History (programme FF, B-HS)
- History (programme FF, B-CH)
- History (programme FF, B-MA)
- Croatian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Croatian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Classical Greek Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Classical Greek Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Latin Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Latin Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Macedonian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Macedonian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Mediterranean Studies (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Mediterranean Studies (programme FF, B-HS)
- German Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- German Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- German Language and Literature (programme FF, B-TV)
- Dutch Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Dutch Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Dutch Language, Literature and Culture in Middle-European Context (programme FF, B-FI)
- Norwegian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Norwegian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- General Linguistics (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- General Linguistics (programme FF, B-HS)
- Polish Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Polish Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Polish with orientation on Commercial Practice, Services and Travel (programme FF, B-FI)
- Scandinavian Studies (programme FF, B-FI)
- Slovak Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Slovak Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Slovenian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Slovenian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Serbian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- Serbian Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- Course objectives
- In this course the Baltic languages are presented as a branch of the Indo-European language family. The course provides a concise review of the historic sources on these languages, as well as it analyses the evolution of paradigm of this linguistic branch. The special attention is payed to the historical and cultural contexts, in which Baltic languages did function in the past and do in the present.
- Syllabus
- The term of Baltic languages and relations between Baltic languages and other ide-languages
- The historic areal of the Baltic languages
- Linguistic material available on extinct Baltic languages
- First historical records of Baltic tribes
- Old-Prussian: sources available, their characteristics and content
- Lithuanian: from the oldest sources to the present
- Latvian: from the oldest sources to the present
- The main dialectological features of the Baltic languages (Latgalian and Zhemaithian)
- Literature
- required literature
- BOJTÁR, Endre. Foreword to the past : a cultural history of the Baltic people. New York: Central European University Press, 1999, viii, 419. ISBN 9639116424. info
- ERHART, Adolf. Baltu valodas. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1984, 199 s. URL info
- DINI, Pietro U. Foundations of Baltic languages. Translated by Milda B. Richardson - Robert E. Richardson. Vilnius: Eugrimas, 2014, 725 s. ISBN 9786094372636. info
- recommended literature
- STANG, Chr. S. Vergleichende Grammatik der Baltischen Sprachen. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1966, viii, 483. info
- ZINKEVIČIUS, Zigmas. Lietuvių kalbos istorija. Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopediju leidykla, 1992, 347 s. info
- ZINKEVIČIUS, Zigmas. Lietuviu kalbos istorija. Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopediju leidykla, 1994, 394 s. ISBN 5-420-01285-5. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures
- Assessment methods
- Written examination aimed at testing the student’s insight into the main theories, concepts and methodologies of the discipline, or in the work of the main representatives of the scholarly discourse, and at checking the student’s ability to connect relevant facts into logical relations.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2017, recent)
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