Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of French Language and Literature
- Code
- BMI-FRAD-454F
- Title
- The History of Languages
- Usual semester
- Spring
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- fr
- Learning outcomes
- The aim of the course, beyond a strictly historical introduction (the Romanisation of Gaul and the consequences of the Frankish conquest), is to present the basic trends in the phonetic, morphological, syntactic and semantic changes of French, as well as the cultural and historical background of the language, from the Old French period to the emergence of Classical French. It also aims to present and analyse the main linguistic monuments.
- Course content
- - The origins. - Old French. - Middle French. - Middle French and the Renaissance. - Classical French - French in the Age of Enlightenment. - From the Revolution to 1870. - Contemporary French
- Assessment method
- Colloquium (written and/or oral exam).
- Bibliography
- Cerquiglini, Bernard. « H comme Histoire. Le français : un créole qui a réussi » dans Le français dans tous ses états. Paris. Flammarion. 2000. 109-123. Herman József: Précis d’histoire de la langue française. Budapest, Tankönyvkiadó, 1967. Leclerc, Jacques. Histoire de la langue française. http://www.axl.cefan.ulaval.ca/ francophonie/histlngfrn.htm REY, Alain, Gilles SIOUFFI et Frédéric DUVAL. Mille ans de langue française: histoire d'une passion. Paris. Éditions Perrin. 2007. Szabics Imre: Textes littéraires français du Moyen Age. Budapest, Tankönyvkiadó, 1988.