NJ_HIT Analysis of Old and Middle High German Texts

Faculty of Education
Spring 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
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
Supplier department: Department of German Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
NJ_HIT/01: Tue 15:45–16:30 A33 učebna, M. Muzikant
Prerequisites
succesfull completion of the previous term
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
Abstract
Students have the knowledge in the area of declination, conjugation and sentence structure from the historical point of view. Students are capable of recognizing phonetic, morphological, lexical and syntactiv features in the texts and they are also able to translate these texts into new-upper German with the help of dictionaries.
Key topics
1. Translation of selected extracts of old-upper German texts - Zweiter Merserburger Zauberspruch - Das Hildebrandslied - Das Wessobrunner Gebet 2. Translation of selected extracts of middle-upper German texts - Der von Kürenberger: Falkenlied - Das Niebelungenlied - Walther von der Vogelweide: "Ich saz úf eime steine..." 3. Translation of selected extracts of early-upper German texts - Fabian Frangk: Über die Dörinzer und Hartzländer - Martin Luther: Aus dem Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen 4. Developmental tendencies as a comparison of the old-upper, middle upper and early new-upper German vesions of an extract from Evangel Matthew (27, 5-8) 5. Comparison of previous extract with the translation to a Ghotic language (by a bishop Wulfila according to original in Greek)
Study resources and literature
  • MASAŘÍK, Zdeněk and Vlastimil BROM. Historische Entwicklung des Deutschen: Übersichtstabellen - Kommentare - Textproben (Historical Development of German - Tables - Comments - Texts). Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2005, 129 pp. 1. Vyd. ISBN 80-210-3696-6. info
  • MASAŘÍK, Zdeněk and Eva UHROVÁ. Alt- und mittelhochdeutsche Texte : mit Hinweisen zur Interpretation [Masařík, 1983]. Brno: Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně, 1983. info
Approaches, practices, and methods used in teaching
Seminar
Method of verifying learning outcomes and course completion requirements
Regular and active participation in seminars. To write homework according to the teacher’s instructions.
Language of instruction
German
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013.
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