Survey of Serbo-Croatian
This course provides basic linguistic knowledge about the Serbo-Croatian knowledge, including its phonological and morphological system, the lexicon, ethnic variants and dialectal stratification, major historical developments, and orthographic standards.
Structure of Serbo-Croatian
This course provides a short review of Serbo-Croatian phonetics, morphology, syntax, and lexicon. It furthermore addresses sociolinguistic issues related to the ethnic standards of this language. The knowledge students are expected to acquire during this course is meant to enable them both for linguistic analysis of Serbo-Croatian and to help them in mastering language production and perception.
Introductory Serbo-Croatian
Students are expected to acquire level 1+ (elementary proficiency, higher level) language skills in readin (with other skills lagging behind yet not below level 1) as defined by the US Interagency Language Roundtable (IRL). In addition, this course should empower its student to be able to recognize common knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and behavioral patterns of the region, and to behave (verbally and non-verbally) in compliance with such cultural norms. The course is committed to the communicative contrastive approach. Elements of grammar-and-text methodology are mediated by simplified decision-making schemata and heuristics. Special emphasis are put on the cross-cultural differences.
Intermediate Serbo-Croatian
This course is a continuation of the introductory Serbo-Croatian. Upon completion of the intermediate-level course the students should reach level 2 competence in reading as defined by the IRL (with other skills lagging behind yet not below level 1+). Assuming that students have attained basic grammatical and cultural competence, this course centers at developing their conversational skills and introducing finer points in grammar and the lexicon.
Advanced Serbo-Croatian
This course is a continuation of the intermediate Serbo-Croatian. Its goal is to solidify ILR level 2 skills and concurrently introduce the content elevating students' skills to ILR level 2+ in reading (with other skills lagging behind yet not below level 2).
Serbo-Croatian Phonology
This course is intended to provide theoretical prerequisites and practical techniques which should enable students to be able to conduct phonological analises of Serbo-Croatian. This entails the ability recognize and mark Serbo-Croatian prosodic elements, primarily word stress. Both standard and non-standard prosodic features have been introduced. It furthermore features getting acquainted with both standard and major substandard distinctive features and inventories of segmental phonological units.
Serbo-Croatian Morphology
Serbo-Croatian material has been used to introduce different morphological approaches. The course is organized around the objective of employing a minimal description, which would enable accurate generation and analysis of Serbo-Croatian morphological forms.
Serbo-Croatian Syntax
Serbo-Croatian syntactic structures are investigated using traditional structuralist approach as developed by Aleksandar Beliæ. Central to the design of this course is the emphasis on less common syntactic models and forms of clausal variation.
Serbo-Croatian Lexicology and Lexicography
Material of Serbo-Croatian has been used to introduce major topics and concepts of traditional European lexicology. Lexical meaning, lexical relations, lexical stratification and lexical dynamics are central topics of this course. Special attention is devoted to the lexical changes after the fall of Communism.
Serbo-Croatian Linguistic Norms and Orthography
Main goal of this course is to enable mastering of the Serbo-Croatian orthographic norms. In addition to explaining theoretical background of orthographic rules and their history, this course takes its students through a series of orthographic drills.
Serbo-Croatian Historical Grammar
This is an overview of the development within phonology, morphology, syntax and the lexicon from the Proto-Slavic to contemporary Serbo-Croatian, its ethnic standards and dialects. At the same time this course offers students a chance to get acquainted with the methodology and techniques of historical linguistics.
History of Serbian and Croatian Literary Standards
This course is a brief introduction into the history of literary languages in the Serbo-Croatian-speaking areas starting from the Serbian and Croatian redactions of Old Church Slavonic and ending with the Illyrian movement and Vuk Karadzic, who initiated the reforms which have shaped the contemporary Serbo-Croatian standards.
Slavic Comparative Grammar
This course has a twofold objective. First, it provides a general overview of the historical development from the Indo-European via Proto-Slavic to the three branches of Slavic languages and each language in these branches. Secondly, it presents essential information about each Slavic language and its culture.
Slavic Contrastive Grammar
Material of Serbo-Croatian, Russian, and Polish has been used to contrast grammatical and lexical systems. Slavic lnaguages are viewed in a cross-cultural perspective. Contrasting lexical systems is central to the design of this course.
Computational Linguistics of Slavic Languages: An Introduction
After a brief review of the projects in Slavic computational linguistics, students are introduced to the following areas of work within computational linguistics using the material of Russian, Polish, and Serbo-Croatian: work with text corpora, building morphological generators and analyzers, compiling lexical databases, creating on-line interactive excercises, programming in Perl, etc.
Psycholinguistics of Slavic Languages: An Introduction
This course familiarizes its participants with basic forms of experimental design and basic psycholinguistic experimental formats (lexical decisions, phoneme monitoring, etc.). The course focuses on specific features of Slavic languages. Students are asked to design, conduct, analyze, and present an experiment adressing bilingual or monolingual mental lexicon.
History of Slavic Languages: An Introduction
This course combines traditional history of Slavic languages, tracing phonological and morphosyntactic structures to Proto-Slavic and Indo-European with surveys of three major Slavic languages from the three branches.
Linguistic Proseminar I: Formal Approaches to Slavic Languages
The goal of this course is to make students acquainted with prominent inguistic approaches and concepts in linguistics and thus prepare them for the MA seminar in Slavic linguistics. The methodological background in this course is HPSG and computational linguistics. In addition to elaborating on theoretical concepts, students are required to engage in group projects, which are aimed at compiling electronic lists and databases, typically Polish-SerboCroatian, which are used in further research on MA seminar in Slavic linguistics.
Linguistic Proseminar II: Cross-cultural Cognitive Linguistics
The goal of this course is to make students acquainted with prominent inguistic approaches and concepts in linguistics and thus prepare them for the MA seminar in Slavic linguistics. The methodological background in this course is cognitive, cross-cultural, and contrastive approach. In addition to elaborating on theoretical concepts, students are required to engage in group projects, which are aimed at compiling electronic lists and databases, typically Polish-SerboCroatian, which are used in further research on MA seminar in Slavic linguistics.
Russian Conversation and Composition
The goal of this course was to assist students attaing ILR level 2 competence in reading (with other skills lagging behind yet not below level 1+). The course features ample role playing and working with real-life materials. It also provides a review of intermediate to advanced grammatical structures (such as verbal adverbs and adjectives, verbal aspect, etc.)
Introductory Polish
Students are expected to acquire level 1+ (elementary proficiency, higher level) language skills in readin (with other skills lagging behind yet not below level 1) as defined by the US Interagency Language Roundtable (IRL). In addition, this course should empower its student to be able to recognize common knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and behavioral patterns of the region, and to behave (verbally and non-verbally) in compliance with such cultural norms. The course is committed to the communicative contrastive approach. Elements of grammar-and-text methodology are mediated by simplified decision-making schemata and heuristics. Special emphasis are put on the cross-cultural differences.