PV2B63 Historical Toponymy

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Michaela Boháčová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jana Pleskalová, CSc.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Martina Maradová
Timetable
Tue 15:00–16:35 K33
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 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Having completed the course, students will have acquired elementary knowledge of onomastics and will be able to define differences among various types of proper nouns. They will have acquired a deeper knowledge of toponomastics, they will be able to characterize individual types of place names, their specific features and their significance of this kind of research for both linguistics and disciplines dealing with history. They will learn to pay attention to topographical names in the surrounding world, to see them a) as language elements, with a characteristic type of formation and meaning, b) in direct relationship to the settlement of the Czech territory, c) as a fixed part of the landscape, reflecting its character. They will also acquire orientation in elementary sources and in methodology of research relating to the discipline.
Syllabus
  • Intro: the elementary terms relating to toponomastics, i.e. to the discipline dealing with geographical proper names.
  • Toponomastics - the subject of its study.
  • The development of Czech toponomastics.
  • Classification of toponyms.
  • Sources of historical toponymic material.
  • The relation of toponyms and the history of local settlement.
  • The significance of toponomastics for the research concerning locations that do not exist anymore.
  • Street names.
  • Exonyms.
Literature
  • ŠMILAUER, Vladimír. Úvod do toponomastiky : (nauky o vlastních jménech zeměpisných). 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1963, 219 s. URL info
  • Pomístní jména v Čechách :o čem vypovídají jména polí, luk, lesů, hor, vod a cest. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1995, 520 s. ISBN 80-200-0554-4. info
  • ŠRÁMEK, Rudolf and Ivan LUTTERER. Zeměpisná jména v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku (Geographical Names in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia). Havlíčkův Brod: Nakladatelství Tobiáš, 1997, 318 pp. ISBN 80-85809-50-1. info
  • ŠMILAUER, Vladimír. Osídlení Čech ve světle místních jmen. 1. vyd. Praha: Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1960, 391 s. info
  • PLESKALOVÁ, Jana. Tvoření pomístních jmen na Moravě a ve Slezsku. Vydání první. Jinočany: H & H, 1992, 151 stran. info
  • ŠRÁMEK, Rudolf. Úvod do obecné onomastiky (The Introduction to the General Onomastics). 1999th ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1999, 191 pp. ISBN 80-210-2027-X. info
Teaching methods
explanations provided by the tutor or by external experts from the particular field, practical demonstration of materials in seminars
Assessment methods
The final work is in a written form, checking the knowledge acquired by students from the theoretical explanations (elementary terminology, understanding the differences among various groups of proper names, giving concrete examples, knowledge of elementary sources etc.).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2016.
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