LgBA06 History of linguistics

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Bc. Ondřej Šefčík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Bc. Ondřej Šefčík, Ph.D.
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
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to name the line of development of linguistics in 19th and 20th century; name given schools and authors; demonstrate their main thesis; compare them.
Learning outcomes
Finishing the course, the student will be able to: - describe the methodological development of the linguistics in the 19th and 20th century - explain the important methodological shifts and interpret them - put the history of the linguistics in the context of the general history of the world and the history of the science
Syllabus
  • - origins of comparative linguistics - Franz Bopp - Wilhelm von Humboldt - A. Schleicher and evolution - first neogrammarians - Golden age of Neogrammarians - Criticism of Neogrammarians - W. D. Whitney - F. de Saussure and origin of structural though - School of Kazan - School of Prague - School of Copenhagen - deskriptivism - other structural schools - generative grammar
Literature
  • SHAUMYAN, Sebastian, Wolfgang. GIRKE a Helmut JACHNOW. Strukturale Linguistik. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1971. Internationale Bibliothek für allgemeine Linguistik.
  • Saussure / John E. Joseph. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012
  • Histoire de la linguistique : de Sumer à Saussure / Bertil Malmberg. Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 1991
  • VACHEK, Josef. Prolegomena k dějinám Pražské školy jazykovědné. Jinočany: H & H, 1999.
  • STURROCK, John a Justin WINTLE. Structuralism. London: Paladin Grafton books, 1986. Paladin movements and ideas.
  • KOLÁŘOVÁ, Ivana. Dějiny lingvistiky (Development of the linguistic methodology). 2006. URL info
  • ČERNÝ, Jiří. Malé dějiny lingvistiky. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2005, 239 s. ISBN 8071789089. URL info
  • ČERNÝ, Jiří. Dějiny lingvistiky. 1. souborné vyd. V Olomouci: Votobia, 1996, 517 s. ISBN 80-85885-96-4. info
  • Lexicon grammaticorum : who's who in the history of world linguistics. Edited by Harro Stammerjohann - Sylvain Auroux. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1996, xxvii, 104. ISBN 3484730188. info
  • ČERNÝ, Jiří. Stručné dějiny lingvistiky. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1983, 161 s. info
  • ČERNÝ, Jiří. Stručné dějiny lingvistiky. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1980, 149 s. info
  • ČERNÝ, Jiří. Stručné dějiny lingvistiky. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1975, 181 s. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
Written examination consisting of 6 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: Zápočet jen 2 kredity.
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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