CJBB133 Historical Grammar of Czech

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Michaela Boháčová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Martin Březina (lecturer)
prof. Mgr. Pavel Kosek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Hana Žižková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Mgr. Pavel Kosek, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Silvie Hulewicz, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 10 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/10, only registered: 0/10
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Phonological and morphological analysis of Czech texts is the issue of Seminar. The seminar is focused on reconstruction of the phonological and morphological development of Czech during the thousand years of its existence. For the work in seminars, transliterated Old Czech texts are used as a material.
Learning outcomes
Having participated in the course, students will be able:
to transcribe a transliterated Old Czech text,
to translate an Old Czech text,
to identify grammatical categories of specific Old Czech inflected forms,
to reconstruct the phonological development of a specific Old Czech word from the Proto-Czech beginnings to the present day (including the main territorially-conditioned varieties),
- to reconstruct the morphological development of a specific Old Czech word from the Proto-Czech beginnings to the present day (including the main territorially-conditioned varieties).
Syllabus
  • Transliteration a transcription of Old Czech texts
  • Phonological and morphological analysis of Old Czech low-style texts
Literature
    recommended literature
  • KOSEK, Pavel. Historická mluvnice češtiny - překlenovací seminář (Historical Grammar of Czech - bridging seminar). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, 112 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6974-9. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
  • KOSEK, Pavel. Historická mluvnice češtiny I (Historical Grammar of Czech). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, 211 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6906-0. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
    not specified
  • LAMPRECHT, Arnošt, Dušan ŠLOSAR and Jaroslav BAUER. Historická mluvnice češtiny. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1986, 423 s. URL info
  • BĚLIČ, Jaromír, Adolf KAMIŠ, Karel KUČERA and Václav KŘÍSTEK. Malý staročeský slovník. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1979, 707 s. URL info
  • GEBAUER, Jan. Slovník staročeský. 2., nezm. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1970, xxx, 674. info
  • GEBAUER, Jan. Slovník staročeský. V Praze: nákladem České grafické akciové společnosti Unie, 1904, 632 s. info
  • Staročeský slovník. Na-Přědložený. Praha 1968-2000 (slovníková hesla vycházejí postupně v sešitech).
Teaching methods
Teaching methods that are used include: an analysis of Old Czech texts, discussions in classes, homework, reading specific scholarly sources (compulsory sources), drills. Competences, knowledge and skills acquired by students during their preparatory work. Students’ knowledge is checked in classes mainly on an oral basis or by exercises in a written form. An electronic support of teaching in the form of an e-learning course is a part of the course - students are required to fill in exercises continuously during the term.
Assessment methods
A prerequisite for receiving credits are 1. completed e-learning, 2. a written test. Written test is based on an analysis of a piece of a transliterated Old Czech text, consisting of: its transcription, determination of the phonological development of each word, stating the period of the successive changes from Proto-Czech to the present day, identification of all given forms of inflected parts of speech and of an outline of their development from Proto-Czech to the present day. The required limit for successful completing is 75%.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: every week.
General note: Překlenovací seminář CJBB133 je vždy rozvrhově přičleněn k seminární skupině CJA041.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Aktuálně otvírané jen pro příchozí studenty z jiných fakult do mgr. navazujícího studia, kteří dosud neabsolvovali historickou mluvnici češtiny. Předmět je pro tyto studenty podmínkou pro zápis do CJA054 Historická slovotvorba a syntax.
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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The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2009, Spring 2010, Autumn 2010, Spring 2011, Autumn 2011, Spring 2012, Autumn 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013, Spring 2014, Autumn 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Autumn 2016, Spring 2017, Autumn 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Spring 2019, Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, Autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024.
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