LgV01 Celtic languages

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Taught online.
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Lucie Vinšová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
A knowledge of some West European language and a serious interest in Celtic languages and literatures.
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
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Course objectives
The course offers the survey of Celtic languages in their diachronic and synchronic perspective. Students should be acquainted with specific features of the Celtic languages in both past and present.
Learning outcomes
Student will acquaint with grammatical structure of some modern Celtic languages and obtains information about epigraphic Celtic 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. 682 pp. ISBN 041528080X. 2002. info
  • RUSSELL, Paul. An Introduction to the Celtic Languages. London: Longman Group United Kingdom. ISBN 058210081X. 1995. info
  • BIČOVSKÝ, Jan. 2005. Úvod do vývoje keltských jazyků. Praha: Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy v Praze.
  • DRDA, Petr. Keltové a Čechy. Edited by Alena Rybová. 2., rozš. vyd., v Academii. Praha: Academia. 196 s. ISBN 8020006583. 1998. info
  • STAUDTE-LAUBER, Annalena. Keltové. Praha: Pragma. 83 s. ISBN 8072050702. 1996. info
  • ELLIS, Peter Berresford. Keltové :první tisíciletí keltských dějin : 1000 př. Kr. - 51 po Kr. Translated by Richard Podaný. Vyd. 1. Praha: Brána. 235 s., ob. ISBN 80-85946-46-7. 1996. info
  • YEATS, W. B. Keltský soumrak. Edited by Alena Čadrnová, Translated by Andrea Poláčková - Tomáš Grünfel. V čes. jaz. vyd. 1. Brno: Zvláštní vydání--. 137 s. ISBN 80-85436-50-7. 1996. info
  • MAUDUIT, J. A. Keltové. Translated by Liana Veselá. 1. vyd. Praha: Panorama. 201 s. 1979. URL info
Teaching methods
lectures
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.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023.
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