FF:LgV07 Languages of India - Course Information
LgV07 Languages of India
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc. (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
- no aquisitions
- 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
- there are 8 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The main objective of the course are to introduce students to the languages of India (Indo-Aryan, Dravidian and isolated languages) and its geographical, lingvistical, cultural and historical background, including the sketch of structures of grammatic and phonemic systems with typological remarks.
- Learning outcomes
- Students acquaint with grammatical structure of old Indo-Iranian languages and their continuation in modern languages.
- Syllabus
- - geographical and political borders of India - "Greater India" - religion and Indian selfconsiousness - non indo-european and indo-european languages of India - old cultural languages of India (sanskrit and prakrits) - "invasion" languages of India (Persic and Arabic) - towards modern languages (based on Hindi model) - sociolinquistical relations of Indian languages
- Literature
- Windfuhr, Gernot, ed., The Iranian languages. London - New York : Routledge, 2009
- ERHART, Adolf. Struktura indoíránských jazyků. Brno: UJEP 1980.
- ZBAVITEL, Dušan and Jaroslav VACEK. Průvodce dějinami staroindické literatura. Vyd. 1. Třebíč: Arca JiMfa, 1996, 537 s. ISBN 80-85766-34-5. info
- MASICA, Colin P. The Indo-Aryan languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, xvi, 539. ISBN 0521234204. info
- BURROW, Thomas. Sanskrit language. Translated by N. Larina. Moskva: Progress, 1976, 409 s. info
- Teaching methods
- The teacher introduces the ethnic and cultural history and present of the area. The students presents their descriptions of the chosen important languages, including their literary context.
- Assessment methods
- Output is based on a description of a chosen language of the region, in the context of historical, geographical and political conditions.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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