History of Lithuanian language 09-HJL-12

Baltic languages and their membership in the IE language family, the oldest Lithuanian texts, the first Lithuanian dictionaries and grammars, language changes from XVI to XIX cent.

Module learning aims

The most ancient history of the Baltic tribes, their material and spiritual culture from the point of linguistics; the development of the Lithuanian language from XVI to XIX cent.

Major

Philology - Lithuanian Philology

Cycle of studies

1st cycle

Module type

compulsory

Year of studies (where relevant)

Year 3

Learning outcomes

Student can the methods of historical linguistics (external and internal reconstruction); knows what linguistic analysis says about the past.
- determine the degree of kinship between the Baltic languages, their internal division. Baltic languages as a branch of the IE language family.
- replace the most important works of the Old Lithuanian period and characterize them in terms of phonetics, morphology and dialectology (Mosvid, Bretke, Dauksza, Szyrwid).
- identify the most important differences between the Old and New Lithuanian period (e.g. change of constituent order, from enclysis to proclysis, loss of some postpositional cases, changes in Lithuanian vocabulary).
- list the most important Lithuanian grammars and dictionaries, and characterize them (Szyrwid, Klein, Kurschat, Schleicher).

Assessment criteria

Receving a credit for a class on the basis of report and passing test.

Bibliography

Dini, Pietro Umberto. 2000. Baltų kalbos. Lyginamoji istorija, Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas
Otrębski, Jan. 1958. Gramatyka języka litewskiego. T. 1. Warszawa: PWN
Zinkevicius, Zigmas. 1984-1990. Lietuvių kalbos istorija, t. 1-4. Vilnius: Mokslas

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