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History of the Hindi language

ННД.10.04

Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП

First

2023/2024

7 Semester

2

PLO 8. To know and understand the language system, the general properties of literature as an art of speech, the history of the Hindi language and literature, and to be able to apply this knowledge in professional activities. PLO 9. To characterize the dialectal and social varieties of the Hindi language, describe the sociolinguistic situation. PLO 12. To analyze Hindi linguistic units, determine their interaction and characterize linguistic phenomena and processes that cause them. PLO 16. To know and understand the basic concepts, theories and concepts of the chosen philological specialization, to be able to apply it. PLO 17. To collect, analyze, systematize and interpret the facts of language and speech and use them for solving complex problems in specialized fields of professional activity and/or education.

Full-time form

Successful mastering of the disciplines: “Oriental language: advanced level”, “Lingual Country Studies of the Oriental Language”, “Introduction to Oriental Philology”, "Oral and Ancient Eastern Literature", “Lexicology of the first Oriental language”, “Theoretical grammar of the first Oriental language”; knowledge of linguistic terminology and basic laws of language development (from the course “Basics of Linguistics”).

The purpose of the discipline is to acquaint students with the peculiarities of the development of the Hindi language in the period from the 10th to the 20th centuries; teaching students to analyze the phonological, grammatical, lexical and stylistic features of the Old Indo-Aryan, Middle Indo-Aryan and New Indo-Aryan languages based on the material of the texts of the corresponding periods.

1. Balbir N. Extended Grammars: From Sanscrit to Middle Indo-Aryan with Reference to Verb-Description. Histoire Epistémologie Langage. 2017. https://www.persee.fr/docAsPDF/hel_0750-8069_2017_num_39_2_3611.pdf 2. Butt M., Ahmed T. The redevelopment of Indo-Aryan case systems from a lexical semantic perspective // Erschienen in: Morphology, 2011. https://d-nb.info/1196969418/34 3. Cardona G. & Jain D. The Indo-Aryan Languages (eds.). Routledge, 2014. 4. Cardona G., Luraghi S. Indo-Aryan Languages. Routledge, 2009. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203301524-28/indo-aryan-languages-george-cardona-silvia-luraghi 5. Cathcart C. A. Toward a deep dialectological representation of Indo-Aryan. University of Zurich. 2019. https://aclanthology.org/W19-1411.pdf 6. Hindi language // https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hindi-language

Learning activities comprise interactive lectures and seminar classes. Students’ self-study involves preparation for oral responses, reports with the analyses of scientific literature, research presentation, precis, summaries.

Semestral assessment is based on: oral responses, reports and presentations / precis – 24/40 points, modular control works – 12/20 points. Summarizing evaluation in the form of exam is max. 40 / min. 24 points (60% of minimum required quantity); the exam is conducted in written and oral forms, and proposes: 1) to answer two theoretical questions; 2) to complete a practical task. Students, who totally scored less than 36 points during the semester, may not participate in the exam.

Ukrainian, Hindi