UZROMA101 Introduction to Vulgar Latin

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2007
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jan Pavlík (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Ladislava Miličková, CSc.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Dagmar Holoubková
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
Vulgar Latin and the birth of Romance languages.
Syllabus
  • Classification of Indo-European languages with regard to the Italic languages; pre-Indo-Europeans and Indo-Europeans in the Mediterranean; Italics in the Apennine peninsula; Latins in Latium; from archaic to classical Latin; main phonetic, morphological, syntactical and lexical differences between classical and vulgar Latin; romanization; bilingualism; substratum, superstratum, adstratum; a classification of linguistic changes; analysis of relevant texts (Appendix Probi, glossaries, etc.).
Literature
  • OSTRÁ, Růžena. Přehled vývoje románských jazyků. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1980, 130 s. info
  • ŠABRŠULA, Jan. Úvod do srovnávacího studia románských jazyků. Praha, 1980. info
  • TAGLIAVINI, Carlo. Le origini delle lingue neolatine. Bologna, 1969. info
  • DEVOTO, Giacomo. La storia della lingua di Roma. Bologna, 1969. info
  • GRANDGENT, Charles H. From Latin to Italian. Cambridge, 1927. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Zkouška se skládá ze dvou částí: 1) z písemného testu z klasické latiny v rozsahu 50 lekcí učebnice pro střední školy (Špaňár-Kettner) 2) z ústní části, k níž budou připuštěni pouze ti posluchači, kteří uspějí u písemného testu.
Language of instruction
Czech
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Study Materials
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