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Lecturer(s)
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Schuppener Georg, prof. Dr. phil.
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Hrabcová Tereza, Mgr. Ph.D.
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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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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.
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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Ernst, Peter. Deutsche Sprachgeschichte. Wien, 2005. ISBN 3-8252-2583-6.
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Paul, Hermann. Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte. Tübingen, 1966.
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Polenz, Peter von. Deutsche Sprachgeschichte vom Spätmittelalter bis zum Gegenwart. Berlin, 2000. ISBN 978-3-11-016802-0.
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Schuppener, Georg. Basiswissen Sprachgeschichte. Lipsko, 2014. ISBN 978-3-940075-90-1.
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Wolff, Gerhart. Deutsche Sprachgeschichte von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Tübingen, 2009. ISBN 978-3-8252-1581-1.
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