BA120 History of Baltic Languages

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2020
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mag. Vaidas Šeferis, Dr. phil. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mag. Vaidas Šeferis, Dr. phil.
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
Fri 12:00–13:40 D33
Course Enrolment Limitations
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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.
Learning outcomes
After completing this course students should be able to: -Identify Baltic languages in the typological frame -Explain the linguistic material available for extinct Baltic languages -Describe cultural and social functional basis of recent Baltic languages -Explain basic grammatical features of individual Baltic languages -Explain diachronic development of Baltic languages -Explain main theoretical approaches to the research of Baltic languages
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, home reading
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.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2006, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2009, Spring 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2014, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019.
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