Course: Introduction To Etymology

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Course title Introduction To Etymology
Course code KBH/UVETY
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Vepřek Miroslav, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Lavička David, Mgr.
Course content
The discipline is realized with two forms of teaching - the lecture and the seminary. The lectures are focused on selected themes from the etymological theory. These themes are trained on concrete etymological explications in the seminary. Themes (only selection): etymological dictionaries, phonetic and phohological changes, "tabu" in etymology, semantic changes and semantic paralels, problems of the loan words, reconstruction of Indo-european.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Methods of Written Work
Learning outcomes
The discipline is focused on Etymology - the specific diachronic linguistic discipline, on etymological theory and also on practical informations about the methodology of etymological explications and etymological dictionaries.
Student is able to analyse main proceses of an origin and a developement of a form and a meaning of words and also to compare and classify various etymological explications in the etymological dictionaries.
Prerequisites
A minimum of diachronic linguistics (for example: Introduction to Diachronic Slavistics or Developement of Czech).

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Student performance, Dialog, Seminar Work

The active attendance in seminaries, 5 abstracts from selected etymological dictionnary (an etymological explication of specific words).
Recommended literature
  • ERHART, A. - VEČERKA, R. Úvod do etymologie. Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, Praha 1981..
  • HAVLOVÁ, E. (ed.). Etymologický slovník jazyka staroslověnského. Academia, Praha od r. 1989..
  • HOLUB, J. - KOPEČNÝ, F. Etymologický slovník jazyka českého, Státní nakladatelství učebnic, Praha 1952..
  • MACHEK, V. Etymologický slovník jazyka českého, Lidové noviny, Praha 1997.
  • Rejzek, J. (2001). Český etymologický slovník. Voznice: LEDA.
  • Večerka, R. a kol. (2006). K pramenům slov. Uvedení do etymologie. Praha: NLN.


Study plans that include the course
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2023) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2023) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2023) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -