RJ2004 Historical Grammar of Russian 1

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Bc. Oxana Truhlářová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Bc. Oxana Truhlářová, Ph.D.
Department of Russian Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Helena Rytířová
Supplier department: Department of Russian Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
RJ2004/Kombi01: Fri 20. 9. 8:00–9:50 učebna 63, Fri 4. 10. 8:00–9:50 učebna 63, Fri 18. 10. 8:00–9:50 učebna 63, Fri 1. 11. 8:00–9:50 učebna 63, Fri 15. 11. 8:00–9:50 učebna 63, Fri 29. 11. 8:00–9:50 učebna 63, O. Truhlářová
RJ2004/Prez01: Thu 19. 9. 12:00–13:50 učebna 63, Thu 26. 9. 12:00–13:50 učebna 63, Thu 10. 10. 12:00–13:50 učebna 63, Thu 17. 10. 12:00–13:50 učebna 63, Thu 31. 10. 12:00–13:50 učebna 63, Thu 7. 11. 12:00–13:50 učebna 63, O. Truhlářová
Prerequisites
Knowledge of Russian language at the level B2–C1
Course Enrolment Limitations
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Course objectives
The goal is to provide a comprehensive overview of Russian historical transformations, focusing on the development of phonological, morphological and syntactic system. The attention will also be paid to the comparative aspects of Russian and Czech languages.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student will be able to identify important diachronic changes in the phonological system of Russian language; to analyze morphological phenomena and syntactic structures of contemporary Russian in diachronic perspective; to use the acquired knowledge to interpretation of grammatical phenomena from comparative Russian-Czech point of view.
Syllabus
  • 1. Object and basic concepts of this course. Development of Russian graphic system. Old Church Slavonic and its relation to Russian.
  • 2. The most important characteristics of East Slavic language group. Historical phonology.
  • 3. Disappearance of yers. Development of paired soft and hard consonants. History of phonems /ы/, /и/. Formation of akanye and ikanye.
  • 4. Historical morphology. Nouns. General tendencies and regularities in declension of Old Russian nouns.
  • 5. Adjectives. Differences in the use of short and full forms in Old Russian. Comparative forms.
  • 6. Pronouns in Old Russian language.
  • 7. Development of numerals. Etymology of basic numerals.
  • 8. Verbs. Present, past and future tenses in Old Russian language. Category of tense and category of aspect.
  • 9. Imperative and conditional. Participles and adverbial participles.
  • 10. Uninflected parts of speech.
  • 11. Historical syntax: simple sentence.
  • 12. Historical syntax: constructions with prepositions, the formation of a complex sentence.
Literature
    required literature
  • MRÁZEK, R. - POPOVA, G. V. Historický vývoj ruštiny. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013
  • VEČERKA, Radoslav. Staroslověnština v kontextu slovanských jazyků (Old Church Slavonic in the context of Slavonic languages). Olomouc; Praha: Univerzita Palackého; Euroslavica, 2006, 273 pp. Univerzita Palackého Olomouc. ISBN 80-244-0889-9. info
  • VEČERKA, Radoslav. Základy slovanské filologie a staroslověnštiny. 4. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1996, 112 stran. ISBN 8021013753. info
  • KOLESOV, Vladimir Viktorovič. Istorija russkogo jazyka. S. - Peterburg: Filologičeskij fakul'tet Sankt-Peterburgskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, 2005, 669 stran. ISBN 5769518340. info
    recommended literature
  • VEČERKA, Radoslav. Slovanská jazykověda a paleoslovenistika (Slavonic linguistics and Old Church Slavonic). PLESKALOVÁ, J., KARLÍK, P., KRČMOVÁ, M. a VEČERKA, R. (ed.). In Kapitoly z dějin české jazykovědné bohemistiky. Praha: Academia, 2007, p. 626-663. Academia 1. ISBN 978-80-200-1523-5. info
  • VEČERKA, Radoslav. Počátky slovanského spisovného jazyka : studie z dějin staroslověnského písemnictví a jazyka do konce 11. století. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 1999, 103 s. ISBN 8085899604. info
  • GORŠKOVA, Klavdija Vasil'jevna and Georgij Aleksandrovič CHABURGAJEV. Istoričeskaja grammatika russkogo jazyka : dlja studentov filologičeskich special'nostej universitetov. Moskva: Vysšaja škola, 1981. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Written final test.
Language of instruction
Russian
Follow-Up Courses
Study support
https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/ped/podzim2024/RJ2004/index.qwarp
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: v kombinovaném studiu 12 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023.
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