FF:OJ323 Celts and their languages - Course Information
OJ323 Celts and their languages
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2008
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Thu 8:20–9:55 B11
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 70 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/70, only registered: 0/70, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/70 - Course objectives
- The course offers the survey of Celtic languages in their diachronic and synchronic perspective. Students should be acquainted with fragments of the ancient continental languages and structures of the modern insular languages.
- Syllabus
- 1. Witness of the antique authors about Celts. 2. Territorial dispersion of Celts in various periods of their history. 3. Position of the Celtic branch within the Indo-European langure family. 4. Various model sof the classification of the Celtic languages. 5. Continental Celtic languages (Celtiberian, Lepontic, Gaulish) and interpretation of thein epigraphic monuments. 6. Insular Celtic languages (Welsh, Cornish, Breton; Irish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic): thein description and sociolingvistic situation. 7. Literary heritage of Irish and Welsh.
- Literature
- BALL, Martin, J. and James FIFE. The Celtic Languages. London - New York: Routledge, 2002, 682 pp. ISBN 041528080X. info
- RUSSELL, Paul. An Introduction to the Celtic Languages. London: Longman Group United Kingdom, 1995. ISBN 058210081X. info
- DRDA, Petr. Keltové a Čechy. Edited by Alena Rybová. 2., rozš. vyd., v Academii. Praha: Academia, 1998, 196 s. ISBN 8020006583. info
- STAUDTE-LAUBER, Annalena. Keltové. Praha: Pragma, 1996, 83 s. ISBN 8072050702. info
- ELLIS, Peter Berresford. Keltové :první tisíciletí keltských dějin : 1000 př. Kr. - 51 po Kr. Translated by Richard Podaný. Vyd. 1. Praha: Brána, 1996, 235 s., ob. ISBN 80-85946-46-7. info
- YEATS, W. B. Keltský soumrak. Edited by Alena Čadrnová, Translated by Andrea Poláčková - Tomáš Grünfel. V čes. jaz. vyd. 1. Brno: Zvláštní vydání--, 1996, 137 s. ISBN 80-85436-50-7. info
- MAUDUIT, J. A. Keltové. Translated by Liana Veselá. 1. vyd. Praha: Panorama, 1979, 201 s. URL info
- Assessment methods
- The output consists in a written description of a chosen topic, most frequently it is a description of one of the insular Celtic languages or their comparison. Alternatively the edition and translation of fragment sof important texts in Middle Iris hor Middle Welsh is offered.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught once in two years.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2008, recent)
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