Indo-European Comparative Linguistics - ASJ500121

• Title: Indo-European Comparative Linguistics
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies (21-USPV)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: both
• Points: 2
• E-Credits: 3
• Hours per week, examination: 2/0, C [HT]
• Capacity: winter:unlimited / unknown (unknown); summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: Mgr. Jan Bičovský, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Jan Bičovský, Ph.D.
• Class: Exchange - 09.3 Linguistics
• Is interchangeable with: ALINV553B

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Jan Bičovský, Ph.D. (02.10.2015)

The course is aimed primarily at ERASMUS and visiting students, tought in English.
Focus is on the common heritage of Indo-European languages, such as it is reflected not only in older strata, but in modern languages, such as Czech, English, German, Spanish, Italian or Greek.
The course will cover thr following topics:

History and prehistory of Indo-European linguistics (focusing on how European "nations" and speakers perceieved their similarities and what conclusions they drew)
Indo-European family: the branches and languages (especially the western branches: Celtic, Balto-Slavic, Germanic, Romance (Italic) and Greek)
Shared vocabulary and sound laws lexical comparison
Etymology of place names and personal names
Proto-Indo-European grammar and its continuants in modern European languages

Syllabus in progress, to be appended soon

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Jan Bičovský, Ph.D. (02.10.2015)

Will be updated soon.