SLJAT05 East Slavic Languages and Czech (Synchronic Confrontation)

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 15 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Jiří Gazda, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
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 aim of the course is a systematic comparison of the language systems of contemporary Russian and Czech, especially at the lexical, syntactic, stylistic and textual levels. Special attention is paid to differential and interference phenomena at various levels of the language with emphasis on lexical phenomena (naming level), morphological and syntactic: different degrees of analyticity and synthetics, unequal degree of historical influence of different languages ​​on lexical systems of Russian and Czech, Russian-Czech issues homonymy, semantic asymmetry of polysemic lexemes in R and Č, asymmetry of stylistic stratification of R and Č; declension and conjugation systems R and Č; asymmetric sentence models, expression of being and possession, word order in Russian and Czech sentences, different degrees of syntactic condensation (semisentential formations).
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will be able to:
- to orientate oneself in the current relevant professional literature on the given issue,
- explain the basic typological differences between Russian and Czech, - describe and compare the grammatical structure of Russian and Czech with emphasis on differential phenomena,
- describe and compare the lexical and word-formation structure of Russian and Czech with emphasis on differential phenomena,
- describe and compare the syntactic system of Russian and Czech with emphasis on differential phenomena,
- arguably choose equivalent language resources from a set of variant resources at all levels of the language system of both languages.
Syllabus
  • 1. Typological characteristics of Russian and Czech.
  • 2. Differences between Russian and Czech in terms of different degrees of synthesis / analyticity.
  • 3. Characteristics of Russian and Czech vocabulary, differences in naming.
  • 4. Comparison of vocabulary Russian and Czech in terms of asymmetry of form and meaning (lexical equivalence).
  • 5. Characteristics of morphological systems Russian and Czech.
  • 6. Comparison of declension systems Russian and Czech.
  • 7. Comparison of conjugation systems Russian and Czech.
  • 8. Characteristics of Russian and Czech syntactic system.
  • 9. Expression of being and possession in Russian and Czech.
  • 10. Verbal capacitors (semi-sentence formations) in Russian and Czech.
  • 11. Word order in Russian and Czech.
  • 12. Stratification and stylistic differentiation Russian and Czech.
Literature
    required literature
  • ŽAŽA, Stanislav. Ruština a čeština v porovnávacím pohledu. 2. přeprac. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1999, 122 s. ISBN 80-210-2058-X. info
  • BAUER, Jaroslav, Roman MRÁZEK and Stanislav ŽAŽA. Příruční mluvnice ruštiny. 3. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1979, 521 s. info
  • LEŠKA, Oldřich. Příruční mluvnice ruštiny. Edited by Bohuslav Havránek. 3. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1976, 587 s. info
    recommended literature
  • FLÍDROVÁ, Helena, Stanislav ŽAŽA and Aleš BRANDNER. Sintaksis russkogo jazyka v sopostavlenii s češskim. V Tribunu EU vyd. 1. Brno: Tribun EU, 2013, 157 s. ISBN 9788026303558. info
  • GAZDA, Jiří and Ivo POSPÍŠIL. Proměny jazyka a literatury v současných ruských textech. Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2007, 146 s. ISBN 9788021044265. URL info
  • LEŠKA, Oldřich. Jazyk v strukturním pojetí : kapitoly ze synchronní a diachronní analýzy ruštiny. Edited by Zdena Skoumalová. Vydání první. Praha: Euroslavica, 2003, xxxiv, 476. ISBN 8086420132. info
  • GAZDA, Jiří. Dynamika a internacionalizace slovní zásoby současné ruštiny. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2002, 121 s. ISBN 8021027800. info
  • VLČEK, Josef. Porovnání slovní zásoby ruského jazyka se slovní zásobou českého jazyka. Vyd. 1. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 1985, 274 s. URL info
Teaching methods
Pilot lecture, consultations, guided self-study, final seminar.
Assessment methods
Seminar work on a chosen topic, oral exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught each semester.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024.
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