Objectives and competences
Course objective is to presents to the students the Old Church Slavic language as a basis for further study of historical grammar of the Slovene language and of other Slavic languages Lectures give an introduction overview of Indo European languages to Proto-Slavic language to Old Church Slavic language.A focal point is presented by the structure of the Old church Slavic language in monuments of various Slavic editions.
Content (Syllabus outline)
– From the Indo European do Proto Salvic and from Proto Slavic to the Old Church Slavic language
– Work of Saint Cyril and Methodius
– The origin of the Old-Church Slavic language and its linguistic base; relations to other Slavic languages
– The naming of the first Slavic standard language
– Periodization of OCS language and Church-Slavic language and literature
– Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabet
– Marking of numbers, word abbreviations
– Phonetics, morphophonemic phenomena
– Grammar categories and word varieties
– Paradigmatic of inflective word classes
– Morphology and word-formation
– Characteristics of words, Greek loan words and other borrowings; dictionary of the Old-Church Slavic words
– Reading of the Old-Church Slavic Cyrillic texts
– Linguistic interpretation and analysis of the Old-Church Slavic canon
– Transcription from Cyrillic to Latin and from Latin to Cyrillic
– Attempt to translate Old-Church Slavic texts to the Slovene
Learning and teaching methods
Lectures and homework.
Method of explanation, discussion.
The information and communications technology is used for educational purposes in the teaching and learning process.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
After the examination passed student will profoundly understand historical and other specifics of other Slavic and Indo European languages. He/she will be capable of further professional and scientific literature from the field.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
The acquired knowledge is a necessary foundation for study of the Slovene dialects, in study of literary language for professional confrontation with the oldest and old monuments as well as with the synchronal inexplicable phenomena in contemporary speech and texts.
Readings
V. Babič, 2003: Učbenik stare cerkvene slovanščine. Ljubljana: Univerza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta.
S. Damjanović, 2000: Staroslavenski glasovi i oblici. Zagreb: Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada.
H. G. Lunt, 2001: Old Church Slavonic Grammar. Berlin – New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
France Tomšič, 1943: Starocerkvenoslovanska slovnica in čitanka: za višje razrede srednjih šol. Ljubljana: Pokrajinska šolska založba.
Prerequisits
Exam prerequisite: 80 % presence in lectures.
Additional information on implementation and assessment Written examination (written examination may be substituted for 2 colloquiums). - 100 %
