PJ_39 Selected Problems from the History of Polish

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
12/12/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Tadeusz Lewaszkiewicz (lecturer), prof. PhDr. Ludvík Štěpán, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Ivo Pospíšil, DrSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Roman Madecki, Ph.D.
Course Enrolment Limitations
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Course objectives
The aim of the subject is to give the students the idea of the development of the Polish language, especially with language contacts, with the beginnings of standard Polish, the characteristics of the language system and its formation. At the end of the course the student should have a more precise idea of the basic dynamic factors in the development of Polish and to know the dominant causes of its contemporary state.
Syllabus
  • 1. The role of language contacts in the initial period of the formation of Slavic literary languages (a general background);
  • 2. The genesis of the Polish literary language;
  • 3. Causative factors in the development of the Polish literary language - sociopolitical, church and religious, cultural and educational;
  • 4. The most important linguistic relics of the Old Polish age;
  • 5. The beginnings and development of Polish spelling;
  • 6. The characteristics of the development of the phonological system;
  • 7. The characteristics of the development of the morphological system;
  • 8. The characteristics of the development of the syntactic system;
  • 9. Linguistic contacts: borrowings from Latin, German, Czech, Italian, French, Ukrainian and Belarusian, Hungarian, Turkish, Russian, English;
  • 10. The characteristics of the development of the lexical system;
  • 11. Polish-Czech linguistic contacts;
  • 12. Lexical Polonisms in the period of the Czech national and linguistic revival;
  • 13. The development of Polish lexicography;
  • 14 Polish grammars in 16th-19th c. period;
  • 15. The accomplishments of Polish linguistics;
  • 16. Changes in the Polish language after 1945;
  • 17. The language of politics in Poland (after 1989).
Literature
  • Encyklopedia języka polskiego. Edited by Stanisław Urbańczyk - Marian Kucała. Wyd. 3., popr. i uzup. Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy Im. Ossolińskich, 1999, 507 s. ISBN 8304045079. info
  • KLEMENSIEWICZ, Zenon, Stanisław URBAŃCZYK and Tadeusz LEHR-SPŁAWIŃSKI. Gramatyka historyczna języka polskiego. Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1981. ISBN 8301009950. info
  • KLEMENSIEWICZ, Zenon. Historia języka polskiego. Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1974. info
  • URBAŃCZYK, Stanisław. Słowniki, ich rodzaje i użyteczność. Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy Imienia Ossolińskich, 1964. info
Teaching methods
Lectures - theory illustrated by numerous examples, reading of recommended literature.
Assessment methods
Active participation in lectures.
Language of instruction
Polish
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
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The course is taught: in blocks.
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