53-977 Udmurtisch

Lehrende: Dr. Timofey Arkhangelskiy

Veranstaltungsart: Seminar I

Anzeige im Stundenplan: Udmurtisch

Semesterwochenstunden: 2

Unterrichtssprache: Englisch

Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 25

Kommentare/ Inhalte:
Have you ever been interesed in learning Udmurt? Probably not - if you even heard of it at all.
This is why you might reconsider. Udmurt is a Uralic language, so a distant relative of Hungarian and Finnish. But it has been in long contact with Tatar (Turkic family) and Russian. This complex history left its mark on the language of the Udmurts - its vocabulary and grammar - as well as on their culture. With 300,000 speakers, Udmurt is one of the largest minority languages in the Uralic family, but it might become extinct by the end of this century. Udmurt has a literary standard used in newspapers and fiction, but most native speakers hardly ever master it.
We will touch upon all of these topics in this course. Since this is a structural course, you will not actually learn to speak Udmurt (or even read Cyrillic letters that it uses). Instead, we will look at the most important topics in its phonology, morphology, syntax and vocabulary and put them into a cross-linguistic perspective. In which respects is Udmurt similar to other languages, and in which is it unique? What has it inherited from its Proto-Uralic ancestor, and what borrowed from the contact languages? How do different parts of its grammar function together? This way, you will learn something not only about Udmurt, but about human languages in general.
The course is offered in English, however homeworks and exam may be submitted in German. The most recent reference grammar of Udmurt by Winkler, which I will encourage you to use, is also written in German.

Modulkürzel:
FU-E04, FU-A2, FUU-M4