NJ3DC_1ETY Etymology

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/0/7. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Mojmír Muzikant, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Káňa, Ph.D.
Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Helena Rytířová
Prerequisites
successful completion of previous term
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
Students are able to derive phonic structure of lexemes on the basis of acquired phonic laws and meaning shifts. They are able to work effectively with etymological dictionaries and use gained knowledge practically as stimulation and motivation factor in German language teaching.
Syllabus
  • 1) etymology definition as a partial linguistic discipline 2) word formation and their kinds – outline 3) formal side of a lexeme (formativ) and an outline of the most important phonic changes: spontaneous and combinative phonic changes in prehistoric period, first shift, second shift, ablaut, primary umlaut, secondary umlaut, early new upper German phonic changes 4) non-transparent word formation constructions: primary composition, secondary composition, noun derivation, adjective derivation, verb derivation: preffixation, suffixation, composite suffixes 5) changes of lexeme in semantic level: meaning expansion, meaning narrowing, making words pejorative, improving of words, meaning shifts 6) transferred vocabulary: borrowings and foreign word, Latin and German, French and German, Yiddish and German, Slavonic languages and German, English and German 7) Entry structure in etymological dictionary: etymological dictionaries evaluation from the comparative point of view
Literature
  • Pfeiffer, Wolfgang. Etymologisches Wörterbuch des deutschen. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1989.
  • SCHMIDT, Wilhelm. Geschichte der deutschen Sprache : ein Lehrbuch für das germanistische Studium. Edited by Helmut Langner - Norbert Richard Wolf. 10., verb. und erw. Aufl. Stuttgart: S. Hirzel Verlag, 2007, xxi, 489. ISBN 9783777614328. info
  • KLUGE, Friedrich. Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache. Edited by Elmar Seebold. 24. erw. Aufl. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2002, lxxxix, 10. ISBN 3110174723. info
  • SCHWEIKLE, Günther. Germanisch-deutsche Sprachgeschichte im Überblick. 5. Aufl. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2002, xii, 283. ISBN 3476019039. info
  • STEDJE, Astrid. Deutsche Sprache gestern und heute : Einführung in Sprachgeschichte und Sprachkunde. 4. unveränderte Aufl. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1999, 223 s. ISBN 3825214990. info
  • FLEISCHER, Wolfgang and Irmhild BARZ. Wortbildung der deutschen Gegenwartssprache. Edited by Marianne Schröder. 2., durchgesehene und erg. A. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1995, 382 s. ISBN 3-484-10682-4. info
  • SCHIPPAN, Thea. Lexikologie der deutschen Gegenwartssprache. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1992, x, 306 s. ISBN 3-484-73002-1. info
  • SEEBOLD, Elmar. Vergleichendes und etymologisches Wörterbuch der germanischen starken Verben. Paris: Mouton, 1970, 571 s. info
Teaching methods
Seminar
Assessment methods
regular and active participation, knowledge of problematics, colloquy
Language of instruction
German
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: konzultace.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022.
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