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Lecturer(s)
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Bláha Ondřej, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Language situation in the Slavic north - Czech vs. Slovak language, the Carpathian Mountains, Cyrillic vs. Latin alphabet. 2. Language situation in the Slavic south - Balkan linguistic area, confessional and political aspects of standardization. 3. "Domestic" and "borrowed" lexems - internationalization vs. purism, axiological aspects. 4. Underived, derived and composed lexems - typological aspects, areal relations. 5. Simple sentence - valency of the predicate, copula, negation, word order, nonpersonal sentences, modality. 6. Compound and complex sentence - attributive clauses vs. participial and infinitive constructions, conjuctions. 7. Verb - grammatical cathegories, tense and verbal aspect, finite and infinite word forms, formal differences (inflectional types). 8. Noun - grammatical cathegories, aspects of deflectivization, formal differences (inflectional types). 9. Adjective - long and short forms and their use and meaning, possesive adjectives, hard and soft inflectional types. 10. Pronouns (deictics) - personal pronouns (orthotonic and enclitic forms), deictic, possesive and relational pronouns. 11. Vocalism and prozody - repertory of vowels, quantity, stress, diphtongs, nasals, protesis. 12. Consonantism - repertory of consonants, sonants, correlation of voicedness, correlation of softness, remarks on morphonology.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Methods of Written Work
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Learning outcomes
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The seminar deals with current language situation in Slavic countries (with regards to its historical background) and introduces to the lexicon and syntax of Slavic languages. Seminary focuses on linguistic analysis of Slavic newspaper texts and especially on problems of Slavic inflectional morphology, phonology and orthography
Students get to know the structures of another Slavic languages and their history. This will be starting point to better description and (comparative) interpretation of the structure and functioning of the Czech language. In addition the students are practising their ability to read texts written in Cyrillic alphabet and (in wider sense) ability to read the texts written in genetically related foreign languages that the students actively do not know.
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Prerequisites
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Basic knowledge in system of Czech language and in linguistic terminology; a minimum of knowledge in history of Europe, especially its central part.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance, Didactic Test, Systematic Observation of Student
Regular and active participation in class. Preparation of a short work (presentation of certain topic regarding the contemporary Slavic languages).
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Recommended literature
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BĚLIČOVÁ, Helena. (1998). Nástin porovnávací morfologie spisovných jazyků slovanských. Praha.
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BLÁHA, Ondřej. (2015). Jazyky střední Evropy. Olomouc.
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DALEWSKA-GREŃ, Hanna. (1997). Języki słowiańskie. Warszawa.
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EBERHARD, David M. - SIMONS, Gary F. - FENNIG, Charles D. (eds.). (2019). Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Dallas.
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