OJ405 Morphosyntax of the Indo-European languages

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. RNDr. Tomáš Hoskovec, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Tomáš Hoskovec, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 8:20–9:55 C11bezkodu
Prerequisites (in Czech)
OJ404 Indo-European linguistics
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
The main objectives of the course is to introduce students to the typological view of the ontogenesis of ancient Indo-European languages by individual paradigmatizations of their grammatical systems.
Syllabus
  • 1) Philological reality of old Indo-European languages 2) What's possible and what's not ti re-construct. Particularities of the plan de l'expression and the plan de contenu 3) Two stadia of the inflectional type: derivational and paradigmatical. 4) Paradigmatisation of the predicate relation. 5) Paradigmatisation of verbal inflection. 6) Paradigmatisation of nominal inflection.
Literature
  • KURZOVÁ, Helena. From Indo-European to Latin : the evolution of a morphosyntactic type. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1993, xv, 259. ISBN 1556195583. info
  • BARTONĚK, Antonín. Studium staré řečtiny, latiny a středověké latiny. Edited by Elena Marečková - Čeněk Prutký - Hana Reichová - Helena Kurzová. 1985, 112 s. info
  • KURZOVÁ, Helena. Der Relativsatz in den indoeuropäischen Sprachen. Praha: Academia, 1981, 117 s. info
  • KURZOVÁ, Helena. Zur syntaktischen Struktur des griechischen (Infinitiv und Nebensatz). 1. vyd. Prag: Academia, 1968, 126 s. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
Written exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Information on completion of the course: Předpokladem ke zkoušce je prokázat, že student s porozuměním přečetl Íliadu.
The course is taught once in two years.
General note: Student má vedle toho, co vyplývá z výuky, ještě povinnost přečíst - ne nutně v originále, zato však celou - Íliadu, aby poznal nějaký ohlas indoevropského světa.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Spring 2008, Spring 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2014.
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