CJJ19 Old Czech word-formation and syntax

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
prof. Mgr. Pavel Kosek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Michaela Boháčová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Martin Březina (seminar tutor)
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 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The students are expected to have already been acquainted with diachronic phonology and morphology; the course is focused on the word-formation of motivated words and on several syntactic features: the individual constructions, the development of simple sentences, complex and compound sentences and the development of conjunctions.
Learning outcomes
Having participated in the course, students will be able:
- to explain the development of functional morphology of Czech (syntactic functions of cases, connections between inflected and derivative morphology, the grammatical category of tense, the grammatical category of verbal mode, changes into the passive voice, the system of modal verbs etc.),
- to explain the development of elementary categories and types relating to word-formation,
- to explain the development of elementary syntactic objects and constructions (the development of participial and infinitive constructions the development of expressing modalities of possibility and necessity , the development of negation in sentences, origins and development of complex and compound sentences, origins and development of conjunctions, origins and development of negative sentences etc.),
- to transcribe a transliterate a 14th ct. Old Czech text
- to carry out a syntactic analysis of a 14th ct. Old Czech text (its sentence structure – simple sentences, complex and compound sentences)
- to analyze a motivation of a specific Old Czech word from the viewpoint of word-formation.
Syllabus
  • Old Czech high style texts:
  • 1. Transliteration and transcription – revisions.
  • 2. Diachronic morphology – revisions.
  • 3. Development of word-formation of motivated words.
  • 4. Development of syntactic elements.
Literature
  • Kosek, P. 2003. Spojovací prostředky v češtině období baroka. Ostrava : Ostravská univerzita.
  • Viz seminář I
  • ŠLOSAR, Dušan. Česká kompozita diachronně. 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1999, 124 pp. ISBN 80-210-2071-7. info
  • LAMPRECHT, Arnošt, Dušan ŠLOSAR and Jaroslav BAUER. Historická mluvnice češtiny. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1986, 423 s. URL info
  • ŠLOSAR, Dušan. Slovotvorný vývoj českého slovesa. Vyd. 1. Brno: Univerzita J.E. Purkyně, 1981, 161 s. URL info
  • Etymologický slovník slovanských jazyků : slova gramatická a zájmena. Edited by František Kopečný - Vladimír Šaur - Václav Polák. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1980, 783 s. info
  • Etymologický slovník slovanských jazyků : slova gramatická a zájmena. Edited by František Kopečný. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1973, 344 s. info
  • MACHEK, Václav. Etymologický slovník jazyka českého. 2. opr. a dopl. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1968, 866 s. info
  • BAUER, Jaroslav. Vývoj českého souvětí. 1. vyd. Praha: Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1960, 402 s. URL info
Teaching methods
The course is based on the analysis of an Old Czech high-style text of fiction (e.g. Alexandreida).
Assessment methods
The exam has a written form. The test includes: 1. an analysis of an Old Czech text with the focus on issues of word-formation and syntax, 2. a transcription and translation of this text into Modern Czech, 3. an explanation of selected categories of word-formation.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: every week.
Teacher's information
http://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf3
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024.
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