Proto-Germanic - ASJ500128

• Title: Proto-Germanic
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies (21-USPV)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2014
• Semester: winter
• Points: 2
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: Mgr. Jan Bičovský, Ph.D.
• Class: Exchange - 08.9 Others-Humanities; Exchange - 09.3 Linguistics

Annotation

The aim of the lecture is to introduce the student to the history and prehistory of the Indo-European languages and
Indo-European comparative linguistics and their present relation and common features. A special focus will be
placed on the position of Czech vis-à-vis the major languages of Europe, highlighting the common heritage. The
following topics will be covered:
1. Language change, its scientific and popular conceptions throughout history
2. Indo-European comparative linguistics: from William Jones to 21 century
3. Indo-European branches
4. The comparative reconstruction, regularity and analogy
5. PIE homeland, culture, migrations, contacts
6. PIE phonology (kentum-satem, laryngeal theory, ablaut, sound laws)
7. PIE morphology (inflection, derivation, compounds)
8. PIE nominal categories
9. PIE pronoun
10. PIE numerals
11. PIE verb
12. PIE particles and syntax

Clackson, James. Indo-European Linguistics. An Introduction. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press (2007).
Fortson, Benjamin W. IV, (2006). Indo-European Language and Culture: an introduction. (2nd edition) Blackwell
Textbooks in Linguistics.
Mallory, J. P. - Adams, D. Q.The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World.
Oxford - New York: Oxford University Press. (2006)
Meier-Brügger, Michael, Indo-European Linguistics. de Gruyter Textbook: Berlin, Walter de Gruyter (2003).
Ringe, Donald, Reconstructed ancient languages. In: Woodard, Roger (ed.). Ancient languages of Asia and
America. CUP.

Last update: Zemánek Petr, prof. PhDr., CSc. (12.09.2013)

Syllabus

The aim of the lecture is to introduce the student to the history and prehistory of the Indo-European languages and Indo-European comparative linguistics and their present relation and common features. A special focus will be placed on the position of Czech vis-à-vis the major languages of Europe, highlighting the common heritage. The following topics will be covered:

1. Language change, its scientific and popular conceptions throughout history

2. Indo-European comparative linguistics: from William Jones to 21 century

3. Indo-European branches

4. The comparative reconstruction, regularity and analogy

5. PIE homeland, culture, migrations, contacts

6. PIE phonology (kentum-satem, laryngeal theory, ablaut, sound laws)

7. PIE morphology (inflection, derivation, compounds)

8. PIE nominal categories

9. PIE pronoun

10. PIE numerals

11. PIE verb

12. PIE particles and syntax

Clackson, James. Indo-European Linguistics. An Introduction. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2007).

Fortson, Benjamin W. IV, (2006). Indo-European Language and Culture: an introduction. (2nd edition) Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics.

Mallory, J. P. - Adams, D. Q.The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World. Oxford - New York: Oxford University Press. (2006)

Meier-Brügger, Michael, Indo-European Linguistics. de Gruyter Textbook: Berlin, Walter de Gruyter (2003).

Ringe, Donald, Reconstructed ancient languages. In: Woodard, Roger (ed.). Ancient languages of Asia and America. CUP.

Last update: Zemánek Petr, prof. PhDr., CSc. (12.09.2013)