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Variability of Languages in Time and Space - NPFL100

Title:	Variabilita jazyků v čase a prostoru
Guaranteed by:	Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (32-UFAL)
Faculty:	Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual:	from 2023
Semester:	winter
E-Credits:	2
Hours per week, examination:	winter s.:1/1, C [HT]
Capacity:	unlimited
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	taught
Language:	English, Czech
Teaching methods:	full-time
Additional information:	https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/courses/npfl100
Note:	enabled for web enrollment

Guarantor:	Mgr. Magda Ševčíková, Ph.D. Mgr. Anna Nedoluzhko, Ph.D. doc. Ing. Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Ph.D.
Teacher(s):	Mgr. Anna Nedoluzhko, Ph.D. Mgr. Magda Ševčíková, Ph.D. doc. Ing. Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Ph.D.
Is interchangeable with:	ATKL00347

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Annotation -

The course introduces students to linguistic analysis of multiple languages. Different approaches to classification of the world’s languages are summarized first (genealogical classification, areal typology, language typology). Students get familiar with existing resources containing information on many languages. The course then focuses on language typology of phonological, morphological, and syntactic features. Recent approaches to typology of word formation are presented too.

Last update: Mírovský Jiří, RNDr., Ph.D. (04.05.2022)

Course completion requirements -

1. Successful completion of 3 homework assignments

2. Successful completion of the final in-class test at the end of the term

Last update: Ševčíková Magda, Mgr., Ph.D. (04.10.2023)

Literature -

References:

Jan Bičovský: Vademecum starými indoevropskými jazyky. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Filozofická fakulta, 2009.

Lyle Campbell: Historical linguistics: An introduction. 2004.

Bernard Comrie: Language universals and linguistic typology. 1989.

Terry Crowley – Claire Bowern: An introduction to historical linguistics. 2010.

František Čermák: Jazyk a jazykověda (Přehled a slovníky). Praha: Karolinum, 2004.

Jiří Černý: Dějiny lingvistiky. Olomouc: Votobia, 1996.

Jiří Černý: Úvod do studia jazyka. Olomouc: Rubico, 1998.

Tomáš Duběda: Jazyky a jejich zvuky. Univerzálie a typologie ve fonetice a fonologii. Praha: Karolinum, 2005.

Adolf Erhart: Základy jazykovědy. Praha: SPN, 1984.

Victoria Fromkin – Robert Rodman – Nina Hyams: An Introduction to Language. International Student Edition. Boston: Wadsworth, 2006.

Eva Hajičová – Petr Sgall – Jarmila Panevová: Úvod do teoretické a počítačové lingvistiky. Svazek 1: Teoretická lingvistika. Praha: Karolinum, 2002.

Martin Haspelmath et al. (eds.): Language typology and language universals. 2001.

Hans Henrich Hock: Language history, language change, and language relationship: an introduction to historical and comparative linguistics. 2009.

Jakov G. Testelec: Vvedenie v obščij sintaksis. Moskva: Izdatel'stvo RGGU, 2001

Online resources:

The World Atlas of Language Structures (wals.info)

Ethnologue - Languages of the World (www.ethnologue.com)

Last update: Ševčíková Magda, Mgr., Ph.D. (23.01.2019)

Syllabus -

1. Basic facts and linguistic resources on the world's languages

2. Classification of languages: genetic classification of languages (language families and their subclassification), areal typology, linguistic typology

3. Phonemes and phonemic inventories

4. Syllable structure across languages, prosodic features

5. Linguistic signs. Expression of grammatical meanings in languages, morphological types (agglutinating, fusional, isolating, polysynthetic)

6. Typology of grammatical categories: case, number, evidentiality, etc. across languages

7. Word formation across languages: approaches to cross-linguistic study of word-formation

8. Typology of syntactic features: comparing word order across languages

9. Language universals - are there any?

10. Types of writing systems, their principles and dynamics

Last update: Ševčíková Magda, Mgr., Ph.D. (04.05.2022)