LgV12 Indo-European seminary

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2023
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Bc. Ondřej Šefčík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 16. 2. to Fri 19. 5. Mon 13:00–13:50 G11, Mon 13. 2. to Wed 15. 2. Mon 13:00–13:50 J.203
Prerequisites
no requisitions
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
The student is able to list basic branches and languages of Indo-European family; can demonstrate their mutual relativity; knows basic terminology and problematics of IE linguistics; is able to describe phonemic system of reconstructed protolanguage and to work with given literature.
Learning outcomes
The student obtains a survey about the Indo-European language family from concrete languages, their distribution and demography to their comparative grammar.
Syllabus
  • Methods of Indoeuropean linguistics - comparative method of discovering of common origin of Indo-european languages(Bopp, Schleicher, neogramarians, structuralims) - reconstruction of phonemic system of IE - vocalic subsystem - consonantal subsystem: labiovelars vs. palatovelars vs. velars, oppositions T vs. D vs. Dh (vs. Th) etc. - laryngeal theory - ablaut - elementary Lautsätze (Winter´s, Szemerényi´s, of palatalization, Rask´s-Grimm´s..)
Literature
  • Gamkrelidze, T. & Ivanov, V. 1984: Indoevropejskij jazyk i indoevropejcy. Tbilisi. Mallory, J. & Adams, D.Q. 1997: Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. London.
  • LINDEMAN, Fredrik Otto. Introduction to the "laryngeal theory". Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, 1997, 246 s. ISBN 3851246667. info
  • SZEMERÉNYI, Oswald. Introduction to Indo-European linguistics. Oxford: Clarendon, 1996, xxxii, 352. ISBN 0198240155. info
  • BEEKES, Robert S. P. Comparative Indo-European linguistics : an introduction : Vergelijkende taalwetenschap : een inleiding in de vergelijkende Indo-europese taalwetenschap (Orig.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1995. ISBN 90-272-2150-2. info
  • ERHART, Adolf. DIE INDOGERMANISCHE NOMINALFLEXION UND IHRE GENESE (The Indo-Germanic Nominal Declension and Its Genesis.). INNSBRUCK: INNSBRUCKER BEITRAGE ZUR SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT, 1993. ISBN 3-85124-636-5. info
  • SZEMERÉNYI, Oswald John Louis. Einführung in die vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft. 4,, durchges. Aufl. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1990, xxv, 370 s. ISBN 3-534-04216-6. info
  • ERHART, Adolf. Indoevropské jazyky : srovnávací fonologie a morfologie. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1982, 260 p. URL info
  • BRUGMANN, Karl. Kurze vergleichende Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen [Brugmann, 1904]. Strassburg: K.J. Trübner, 1904, xxviii, 77. info
Teaching methods
lectures, drills
Assessment methods
Written examination consisting of 5 questions focusing on the basic notions of the discipline.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Credit evaluation note: Kolokvium jen pro studenty, kteří nejsou zapsáni na obecnou či indoevropskou jazykovědu.
Teacher's information
http://www.phil.muni.cz/jazyk
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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