Sylabus
1. Introduction: the place of HP in historical linguistics, its merits for synchronic phonetics. HP and phonological typology (diachrony vs synchrony) Reading: Honeybone introduction in Honeybone-Salmons, hale in Solé-recasens
2. Change and evolution: change in what: segments, contrasts, rules, categories, system vs context, distribution, asymmetry (systemic and distributional) as diagnostic. The source of sound change: listener vs speaker (phonetics vs phonology), role of acquisition and language contact. reading: Ohala and Bybee in Solé-Recasens, kang, Beekes chapter II
3. Types of change: segmental level: systemic change vs contextual change, lenition vs fortition, assimilation and dissimilation, changes in position, compensatory processes, blending and unpacking, syllabic level, prosody. Clines and trajectories. Reading: Luraghi Bubenik Chapter II, kümmel 2007
4. Propagation of change through space and time, regularity principle, frequency, sociolinguistic effects. Reading: Bybee in Solé-Recasens, d’arcy in honeybone-salmons
5. Data: synchrony vs diachrony. Textual evidence: writing systems, phonetics and phonology, role of script adaptation (indirect evidence for segment mapping), orthography, scribal practice and errors. Reading: Luraghi Bubenik 12-25
6. Data: language contact: systemic mapping, loanword phonology as diagnostic of donor language, superimposition of systems and approximation Reading: LaCharite
7. Data: indirect evidence - explicit native phonetics and phonology (Greece, Rome, India), anecdotal evidence Reading: 2x Allen
8. Data: indirect evidence - poetry (formal parallelism - segmental, prosodic, poetic licence and conservatism) Reading: Minkova in Honeybone-Salmons
9. Data: direct evidence: scribal practice and variation Reading: Minkova in Honeybone-Salmons
10. Data: direct evidence: internal evidence (morphonology, sandhi phenomena), problems of relative chronology and synchronicity Reading: Hock ch. 17
11. Data: direct evidence: comparative evidence (direct descent) Reading: Minkova
12. Data: direct evidence: comparative evidence (common descent) - comparative reconstruction Reading: Weiss in Bowern-Evans
13. Checking our reconstructions Reading Kümmel in Honeybone-Salmons
Anotace
V rámci přednášky budou postupně představovány hlavní aspekty fonologické a morfonologické změny a hlavní současné přístupy k jejímu zkoumání. V rámci semináře budou studenti konfrontování především s konkrétními aplikacemi různých fonologických přístupů k historické fonologii vybraných jazyků. Podstatnou složkou budou otázky rekonstruovatelnosti fonologických systémů a fonetických a fonologick ých procesů.
Předmět je vyučován v angličtině.