UZRJ420 Historical Development of Russian

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
2/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Aleš Brandner, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Timetable
Tue 8:20–9:55 A46 and each even Thursday 16:40–18:15 B12
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
Course objectives
The lectures focus on two disciplines: historical grammar (the historical developments in the areas of phonology, morphology and syntax) and the history of the literary language. In the seminar, Old Russian texts are examined and the language is compared with the situation in modern Russian.
Syllabus
  • 1) Russian language and its historic periods; most important significant features of East-Slavic branch. 2) Historic phonology; Collapse of “yers”; Development of soft-hard consonantal correlation; I, y phonemes; Processes of depalatalisation. 3) Development of prosodic tools; “Akanie”, “ikanie” and their origin; Depalatalisation e>o; Ô and ě phonemes; Phonemes f and g and their history; “Tsokanie”, “Chokanie”, “Dzekanie”, “Tsekanie”. 4) Reflexion of Greek phonetic phenomena in Russian language. 5) Historic morphology; Substantives; General tendencies and rules in declination of Old Russian substantives; Declination of Old Russian substantives and their paradigms. 6) Adjectives; Differences in use of nominal and compound forms in Old Russian; Unification of forms in plural; Possessive adjectives; Comparatives making; Pronouns in Old Russian: personal; reflexive, demonstrative, possessive, determinative, interrogative, relative, indefinite, negative; Development of numerals as a word class; Development of cardinal, indefinite, ordinal, collective and fractional numerals; Etymology of cardinal numerals. 7) Thematic and athematic verbs; Forms of present, past and future temps; Relation of verbal mode and a category of time; Imperative and conjunctive making; Development of participles and deverbative adjectives. 8) Adverbs; Etymology of the most frequent adverbs in contemporary Russian language; Primal and derived prepositions and their origin; Particles; Kinds of particles and their etymology; Conjunctions: coordinating, coordinative; Old Russian conjunctions and their functioning in statement; Interjection and its origin and development. 9) Historic syntax; Type of statements typical for contemporary Russian language – their genesis; Ways of dezagentivation expressing; Modality of statement; Clauses of statement; Desemantization of common cases; Their changes due to prepositional cases; Ttransgressive and participial idioms; Absolute dative; Types of sentences in Old Russian; Indirect speech. 10) History and development of Russian language; Opinions on Russian language origin; Literary language in the period of Russian nationality; so-called II South Slavic influence; Formation of contemporary Russian literary language; 11) Historic development of Russian vocabulary; Autochthonic vocabulary and borrowings; Church-Slavonic elements in contemporary Russian; Development of graphic system; Types of Russian lettering; Ways of text writing; Numbers denotation; Book print; Reforms of writing and orthography; era and calendar; Ways of indicating time (era) in Old Russian written artifacts; East-Slaves and their calendar development. 12) Old Russian written artifacts – source for Old Russian language study; Great Moravian and Bohemian church-Slavonic artifacts in Old Russia. 13) Basic facts from Russian dialectology; significant features of Nord-Russian, Middle-Russian and South-Russian dialects; Modern transformations of Russian dialects – gradual los of differences among Russian dialects.
Literature
  • Jefimov, A. I.: Istorija russkogo literaturnogo jazyka. Moskva, 1957.
  • Chaburgajev, G. A.: Očerki istoričeskoj morfologii russkogo jazyka. Imena. Moskva, 1990.
  • Uspenskij, B. A.: Istorija russkogo literaturnogo jazyka (XI-XVII vv.). München 19871, Budapest 19882.
  • Kožin, A. N.: Literaturnyj jazyk Moskovskoj Rusi. Moskva, 1984.
  • Kožin, A. N.: Istorija russkogo literaturnogo jazyka (Kijevskaja Rus). Moskva, 1972.
  • POPOVA, Galina Vladimirovna and Roman MRÁZEK. Historický vývoj ruštiny. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1984, 162 s. info
  • IVANOV, Valerij Vasil'jevič. Istoričeskaja grammatika russkogo jazyka : dlja studentov filologičeskich special'nostej universitetov i pedagogičeskich institutov. Moskva: Prosveščenije, 1983. info
  • GORŠKOVA, Klavdija Vasil'jevna and Georgij Aleksandrovič CHABURGAJEV. Istoričeskaja grammatika russkogo jazyka : dlja studentov filologičeskich special'nostej universitetov. Moskva: Vysšaja škola, 1981. info
  • MRHAČOVÁ, Eva. Vývoj ruského jazyka. Vyd. 1. Ostrava: Pedagogická fakulta Ostravské univerzity, 1981, 206 s. info
  • STECENKO, A. N. Istoričeskij sintaksis russkogo jazyka : dlja studentov filologičeskich special'nostej universitetov i pedagogičeskich institutov. Moskva: Vysšaja škola, 1972, 359 s. info
  • ULUCHANOV, Igor‘ Stepanovič. O jazyke drevnej Rusi. Moskva: Nauka, 1972. info
  • ŠKLJAREVSKIJ, Georgij Ivanovič. Istorija russkogo literaturnogo jazyka : vtoraja polovina XVIII-XIX vek : cikl lekcij. Char'kov: Izdatel'stvo Char'kovskogo universiteta, 1967. info
  • BORKOVSKIJ, Viktor Ivanovič and Petr Savvič KUZNECOV. Istoričeskaja grammatika russkogo jazyka. Moskva: Nauka, 1965. info
  • GORŠKOV, Aleksandr Ivanovič. Istorija russkogo literaturnogo jazyka : kratkij kurs lekcij. Moskva: Vysšaja škola, 1961. info
  • ČERNYCH, Pavel Jakovlevič. Istoričeskaja grammatika russkogo jazyka : kratkij očerk : posobije dlja pedagogičeskich institutov. Izd. 2. Moskva: Gosudarstvennoje učebno-pedagogičeskoje izdatel'stvo Ministerstva prosveščenija RSFSR, 1954, 335 s. info
  • JAKUBINSKIJ, Lev Petrovič. Istorija drevnerusskogo jazyka. Moskva: Gosudarstvennoje učebno-pedagogičeskoje izdatel'stvo Ministerstva prosveščenija RSFSR, 1953. info
Teaching methods
The course has a form of a lecture and of a seminar.
Assessment methods
Students who sign them in the subject are supposed to go for the lectures regularly. One semester discipline is closed with the oral exam. Those who will submit the written paper fortnight before the end of the semester will be allowed to sit for the exam.
Language of instruction
Russian
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009.
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