LgV03 Finno-Ugric languages

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc. (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
Interest to acquaint with languages of the second important language family of Europe, predominantly of agglutinative structure.
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
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Course objectives
Purpose of the course is to present all Fenno-Ugric languages, plus their closest relatives, Samoyedic languages, i.e. the complete Uralic family. Students should be acquainted with a survey of all Fenno-Ugric languages and their grammatical structures.
Learning outcomes
The student will acquaint with grammatical structure of the non-Indo-European languages of Northeast Europe, predominantly of agglutinative typology.
Syllabus
  • 0. History of research of the Fenno-Ugric languages. 1. Survey of the Uralic languages: 1.1. Laponské: jižní, Lule, severní, Inari, Skolt, Kildin. 1.2. Balto-Fennic Finnish, Karelian, Olonets, Veps, Lude, Livonian, Estonian, Ingrian, Votic. 1.3. Mordvinian. 1.4. Mari = Cheremis. 1.5. Permian: Udmurt = Votyak, Komi = Zyryan. 1.6.1. Hungarian; 1.1.6.2. Ob-Ugric: Khanty = Ostyak, Mansi = Vogul. 1.7. Samoyedic: 1.7.1. North: Nenets = Yurak, Enets = Yenissei-Samoyedic, Nganasan = Tavgy; 1.7.2. Selkup = Samoyed-Ostyak; 1.7.3. Kamasin; 1.7.4. Sayan-Samoyedic: Mator, Taigi, Karagaský, Koybalsan. 2. Sketsch of the historical phonology of the Fenno-Ugric languages. 3. Sketch of historical morphology of the Fenno-Ugric languages.
Literature
  • HOFÍRKOVÁ, Lucie & BLAŽEK, Václav, Jmenná deklinace fino-sámských jazyků v ugrofinské perspektivě. Linguistica Brunensia 60, 2012, 127-146.
  • HOFÍRKOVÁ, Lucie & BLAŽEK, Václav, Sámská historická fonetika II: Vokalismus v konfrontaci s jazyky baltsko-finskými a v uralském kontextu. Linguistica Brunensia 59, 2011, 73-81.
  • HOFÍRKOVÁ, Lucie & BLAŽEK, Václav, Saamská historická fonetika I: konsonantismus v konfrontaci s jazyky baltsko-finskými a v uralském kontextu. Linguistica Brunensia 58, 2010/1-2, 135-15
  • BLAŽEK, Václav, HOFÍRKOVÁ, Lucie & KOVÁŘ, Michal, Rané prameny o národech uralské jazykové rodiny. Linguistica Brunensia 59, 2011, 189-224.
  • HOFÍRKOVÁ, Lucie & BLAŽEK, Václav, Ke klasifikaci ugrofinských jazyků. Linguistica Brunensia 60, 2012, 85-126.
Teaching methods
Teacher introduces the most important facts about all Fenno-Ugric and Samoyedic populations. Students presents their own descriptions of individual languages.
Assessment methods
Presentation of the grammatical structure of a chosen Uralic language and its written description.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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