FF:ROMIA004a Roman Lingustics - Course Information

ROMIA004a Roman Lingustics

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2010

Extent and Intensity

1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Petr Stehlík, Ph.D. (lecturer)

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Timetable

each odd Monday 11:40–13:15 G24

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

The aim of the course is to familiarize students with basic linguistic terms and history of linguistics, especially of the Romance linguistics.

Syllabus

General linguistics part: Differentiation of terms; language segmentation, language plans, utterance and utterance typology, functional sentence perspective. General and particular linguistics, typology, kinship and classification of languages. Romance languages part: Origins, differentiation and contemporary status of Romance languages. Final part: Overview of developments in linguistics, emphasis is placed on Romance linguistics. Overview and analysis of main linguistic schools (European as well as others) and their propositions.

Literature

OSTRÁ, Růžena and Eva SPITZOVÁ. Úvod do studia románských jazyků. 4. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1995, 175 s. ISBN 8021012587. info
ŠABRŠULA, Jan. Úvod do srovnávacího studia románských jazyků. Praha, 1980. info

Teaching methods

Exposition and definitions of basic terms of linguistics; overview of developments in linguistics, emphasis is placed on Romance linguistics.

Assessment methods

Examination – written test (minimum: 70%).

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.