FF:LgV12 Indo-European seminary - Course Information
LgV12 Indo-European seminary
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- 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 - 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
- there are 35 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- 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
- 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.
- 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)
- 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
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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