History of Lithuanian language

compulsory

Philology - Lithuanian Philology

1st cycle

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.

Year 3

The origins and development of the Lithuanian language from XVI to XIX cent.

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.

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

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).

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