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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 2016 to 2016
Semester:	winter
E-Credits:	3
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:	Czech, English
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time
Note:	enabled for web enrollment

Guarantor:	Mgr. Magda Ševčíková, Ph.D. PhDr. Šárka Zikánová, Ph.D.

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Annotation -

Last update: doc. Mgr. Barbora Vidová Hladká, Ph.D. (25.01.2019)

The course is oriented at languages as a research data and introduces the variability of languages of the world from different points of view (language typology, general types of diachronic changes, transfer of information in different types of notation etc.). Completing programming tasks dealing with multilingual corpora is also included (e.g. comparison of morphological variety of languages, clustering of languages according to their typological features). The course is open every two years, alternating regularly with the course Chapters from the Czech Grammar.

Literature -

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

Campbell, Lyle. Historical linguistics: An introduction. 2004.

Comrie, Bernard. Language universals and linguistic typology. 1989.

Crowley, Terry - Bowern, Claire. An introduction to historical linguistics. 2010.

Čermák, František. Jazyk a jazykověda. 2001.

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

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

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

www.ethnologue.com, wals.info

Syllabus -

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

I. Classification of languages

Languages of the world, possible classifications (e.g. language families, number of speakers)

Overview of phonemic inventories and writing systems, problems of transliteration and transcription

I. Language typology

Phonological, morphological and syntactical typology (Skalička’s typology)

Typology of parts of speech and grammatical categories

Language typology and word creation, comparison of the word creation in Czech and English

Language universals

II. Synchronic and diachronic perspectives

Influence of language changes on the variability of languages

Typical diachronic processes

III. Sociolinguistics: the unintentional speaker’s attitude to language variants

Written and spoken forms of a language

Usage and codification

Influence of foreign languages