15INT11 - Historical Syntax of the Serbian Language

Course specification
Course title Historical Syntax of the Serbian Language
Acronym 15INT11
Study programme Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences and Humanities
Module
Type of study third degree doctoral academic studies
Lecturer (for classes)
Lecturer/Associate (for practice)
    Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)
      ESPB 10.0 Status
      Condition Oblik uslovljenosti
      The goal The objective of the course is to acquaint students with: (1) the principles and methodology of historical syntax, and (2) the causes and consequences of the syntactic changes in Serbian
      The outcome After the course the student is able to: (1) know what are the relevant research questions in historical syntax, (2) recognise and interpret the external and internal motivation of syntactic changes in Serbian from the Old Serbian period to the twentieth century, (3) explain the syntactic phenomena in Old Serbian texts, (4) diachronically explain the modern Serbian syntactic phenomena.
      Contents
      Contents of lectures 1. Key questions for historical syntax (Interpreting historical data; Spoken versus written texts; Determinants of syntactic changes: structural processes, typological factors, functional factors, pragmatic factors; Syntactic changes caused by language contact); 2. The syntax of simple sentences (The structure of the simple sentence in Late Proto‑Slavic; Changes in the sentence pattern; Clausal constituent: subject, object, predicate, agreement, negation; Word order: the order of subject and verb, the order of object and verb, the order of direct objects and indirect objects, the position of adverbs, consequences of word-order change; The noun phrase: the head of the noun phrase, determiners; The verb phrase: tense, aspect, topicalization, complementation); 3. Coordination (Syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic conditions of coordination; Juxtaposition; Between hypotaxis and parataxis; Markers of coordination; Coordination through connectors; Sources for connectors; Position of connectors; Coordination patterns); 4. Subordination (Subordination through subordinators; Sources for subordinators; Position of connectors subordinators; Complementation; Relativization; Adverbial subordination: purpose and result, conditionals and concessives, causals, temporals, comparatives).
      Contents of exercises Reading and syntactic analysis of Old Serbian texts
      Literature
      1. Grickat, Irena. "Studies from the history of the Serbo Croatian language". Beograd: Narodna biblioteka Srbije, 2004.
      2. Grković-Major, Jasmina. "Studies in historical linguistics". Sremski Karlovci & Novi Sad: Izdavačka knjižarnica Zorana Stojanovića, 2007.
      3. Grković-Major, Jasmina. "Historical linguistics: Cognitive-typological studies". Sremski Karlovci & Novi Sad: Izdavačka knjižarnica Zorana Stojanovića, 2013.
      4. Pavlović, Slobodan. "Determinative cases in Old Serbian business and legal documents". Novi Sad: Matica Srpska, 2006.
      5. Pavlović, Slobodan. "The Old Serbian dependent clause from the 12th to the 15th century". Sremski Karlovci & Novi Sad: Izdavačka knjižarnica Zorana Stojanovića, 2009.
      6. Pavlović, Slobodan. "Causes and mechanisms of syntactic changes in the Serbian language". Sremski Karlovci & Novi Sad: Izdavačka knjižarnica Zorana Stojanovića, 2013.
      Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
      Lectures Exercises OTC Study and Research Other classes
      5 2
      Methods of teaching (1) Lecture, (2) class discussion, (3) presentation, (4) problem solving
      Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
      Pre obligations Points Final exam Points
      Activites during lectures 50 Test paper 50
      Practical lessons Oral examination
      Projects
      Colloquia
      Seminars
      Vrh strane