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Lecturer(s)
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Schuppener Georg, prof. Dr. phil.
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Course content
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1. Backgrounds to the development of the language, key concepts 2. Theory of the general language development- theory of language changes 3. Language laws and acceptance of words as factors in the language development 4. Origins of the German language: the Indo-European language and and the Germanic language 5. Developmental stages of the German language I: the Old Upper German 6. Developmental stages of the German language II: The Middle Upper German 7. Developmental stages of the German language: The Early New Upper German 8. Developmental stages of the German language IV: The New Upper German of the 17th -20th century 9. Language and cultural influences and the language contact with regards to German 10. Models in the development of the language as an explanation of the contemporary standard language phenomena 11. Specific regional features of the German language development: Austria , Switzerland 12. The language isles in Central and Eastern Europe, German as a language of minorities¨ 13. The German-Slavonic language contact I: impacts of Slavonic languages on German 14. The German-Slavonic language contact II: German impacts on the Czech language
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of this course is to describe the German language in its diachronic relations, in particular to take account of cultural, media(l) and social factors and changes of paradigms. The course should provide the students with a special insight into the development of the German language from its beginnings until its present day condition and show the process of changes in this language. A special attention will be paid to the German-Slavonic (German-Czech) language contact that is getting now into the centre of our interest. It will deal especially with the development of the German language in Bohemia and Moravia and with the importance of this space for the history of the German language (for instance Prague German/the German language of the Prague Chancery).
Thanks to this course the students will get academic knowledge about the development of the German language and the phenomena associated with consonantal changes, the most significant changes of the written form of the German language, changes in morphological, syntactic, lexical, semantic and pragmatic structures. After completing the course, the students will be able to describe, define /determine and classify diachronic variants and changes of paradigms (as well as synchronic ones derived from them) , as well as distinguish and classify the forms and influences of the (German-Czech) language contact.
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Prerequisites
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none
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Credit requirements: active participation in the seminar, fulfilment of the assigned tasks Examination: in the written form
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Recommended literature
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Gloning, Thomas. Sprachwandel und Sprachgeschichte. Stuttgart, 2009. ISBN 978-3-8252-3208-5.
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Jacob, Daniel. Sprachgeschichte und Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft. Tübingen, 2007. ISBN 978-3-8233-6349.
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Schmidt, Wilhelm. Geschichte der deutschen Sprache. Stuttgart, 2007. ISBN 978-3-7776-1432.
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Schuppener, Georg. Spuren germanischer Mythologie in der deutschen Sprache. Leipzig, 2007. ISBN 978-3-940075-01-7.
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Schweikle, Günter. Germanisch-deutsche Sprachgeschichte im Überblick. Stuttgart, 1996. ISBN 3-476-01452-5.
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Trost, Pavel. Studien über Sprache und Literatur. Leipzig, 2006. ISBN 3-86583-130-3.
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Wolff, Gerhart. Deutsche Sprachgeschichte. Tübingen, 2009. ISBN 978-3-8252-1581-1.
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