VIETX13 Vietnamese in linguistic contacts

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2018
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Michal Schwarz, Ph.D. (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
Timetable
each odd Tuesday 14:00–15:40 J22
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
Presentation of Vietnamese language from comparative point of view. At the end of this course a student is able to understand the historical development of Vietnamese language, knows mutual influences with other languages, is able to make distinctions between genetical, typological and areal relations and knows the most important foreign loanwords in Vietnamese.
Syllabus
  • 1. Vietnamese, its classification and dialects, 2.-3. geneticaly related vs. contact languages, 4. outer history of language contacts, 5. important typological features of Vietnamese, 6. phonetic differences of Vietnamese and contact languages with implicatios for loanwords, 7. syntactical differences, 8.-9. examples of loanwords from Chinese, 10. examples of loanwords from French, 11. loanwords from English, 12. loanwords from other languages and Vietnamese borrowings into other contact languages.
Literature
  • NGUYỄN, Văn Khang. Từ ngoại lai trong tiếng Việt. TP Hồ Chí Minh: Nhà xuất bản Tổng hợp Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, 2013.
  • VƯƠNG, Toàn. Tiếng Việt trong tiếp xúc ngôn ngữ. Từ giữa thế kỷ XX. Le vietnamien en contact linguistique depuis la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle. Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản dản trí, 2010 (2011).
  • LÊ, Ðình Khẩn. Từ vựng gốc hán trong tiếng Việt. Ðà Nẵng: Nhà xuât bản Ðà Nẵng, 2010.
  • SIDWELL, Paul. Classifying the Austroasiatic Languages. Munich: Lincom Europa, 2009.
  • TRẦN, Tri Dõi. Những vấn đề chính sách ngôn ngữ và giáo dục ngôn ngữ vùng dân tộc thiểu số Việt Nam. Hà nội: Nhà xuất bản đại học quốc gia Hà nội, 2011.
Teaching methods
Lectures and practical presentations
Assessment methods
final test from the content of lectures only (i.e. not from sources in Vietnamese)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017.
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