LgMA02 Introduction to Indo-European comparative linguistics II

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
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
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.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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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 morphonemic system of reconstructed protolanguage and to work with given literature.
Learning outcomes
The student is able to apply his knowledge from comparative grammar in both the word formation and etymological analysis of concrete words.
Syllabus
  • Methods of Indo-European linguistics II: reconstruction of morphemic system of IE I. Classification of IE word II. substantives III. adjectives IV. personal pronomina V. gender pronomina VI verba finita VII participles VIII infinitives IX adverbia X. prepositions a copulas
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online. ISSN: 1877-0495.
    not specified
  • Gamkrelidze, T. & Ivanov, V. 1984: Indoevropejskij jazyk i indoevropejcy. Tbilisi. Mallory, J. & Adams, D.Q. 1997: Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. London.
  • 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. Das indoeuropäische Verbalsystem. Vyd. 1. V Brně: Univerzita J.E. Purkyně, 1989, 170 s. ISBN 8021001895. URL info
  • ERHART, Adolf. Indoevropské jazyky : srovnávací fonologie a morfologie. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1982, 260 p. URL info
  • ERHART, Adolf. Studien zur indoeuropäischen Morphologie. Vyd. 1. Brno: Universita J.E. Purkyně, 1970, 183 s. 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)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
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 2023, Spring 2024.
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