32175 - Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (Language)

Course contents

Ethnic and political frame in the BCMS area; Post-Yugoslav ethnic distribution; Speeches and dialects; Language as a system and as a standard; Slavic standard languages; South Slavic Dia-systems

Alphabets; Pronunciation; Ekavian and ijekavian

Nouns and gender; Personal pronouns; Present tense; Questions; Presentative statements; Conjunctions; Adjectives; Clitics and XYZ model;

Present tense (continued); Fleeting vowel; Adjectives (short and long form, indefinite and definite form); Cases; Nouns declension (general);

Introducing the Audio Supplement for the exercises; Group exercises based on the previous lessons; Reading and translating daily news from “Dnevni avaz” (B), “Jutarnji list” (C), and “Politika” (S); Conversation based on the arguments from the press

Present tense (continued); Possessive pronominal adjectives; Genitive; Numbers 1-4; The ending shift -l/-o; Subjectless sentences; Adverbs and question words (continued); Conjunction in the sentence; Word order: embedded question;

Vocative; Nominative; Accusative; Clitic and full forms (review); Negation; Conjunction “da”; Infinitive (general); Verbal aspect; Word order (conjunction)

Present tense forms not predictable from their infinitive; Consonant shift types A and B (Sibilarization and Palatalization); Nominative plural; Prepositions; Adverbs; Pronominal adjectives; People; Reflexive particle “se”

Present tense (continued); Possessive pronominal adjectives; Genitive; Numbers 1-4; The ending shift –l/-o;

Subjectless sentences; Adverbs and question words (continued); Conjunction in the sentence; Word order: embedded question

Existentials “ima-nema”; Distributive “po”; Present tense (continued); Aspects: perfective and imperfective; Negation (continued); Genitive plural; Numbers 5-10 and beyond

Present tense (continued); Dative and locative; Perfect tense; L-participle

Aspect and the past tense; Time expressions; Types of reflexive pronominal forms; Dative (continued)

Infinitives; Imperative mood; Se-verbs; Bi-aspectual verbs; Verbs and adverbs of movement; Motion and destination

Dative, locative, and instrumental plural; Se-verbs (continued);  Vocative; Irregular plural

Present tense (continued); Future tense; Questions and statements; Derivation of aspect partners

Nouns declension (review); Personal pronouns (review); Presentative statements (review)

Present tense (review); Fleeting vowel (review); Consonant shift (review); Ending shift (review)

Numbers (review); Dual forms connected with numbers; XYZ model reviewed

Perfect tense (continued); Existentials and subjectless; Verbal nouns; Ordinal numbers; Body parts; Woed order regarding clitics

The system of consonant softening; Comparison; Collective nouns; Verbal nouns (continued); Participles; The verbal ideas; Verbs of body position

Aorist; Imperfect; Numbers (continued); Verbal adverbs; Exact future

Verbal adverbs (continued); Modal verbs; Aspects and future; Exact future (continued); Compound verbal tenses and moods

Full verb paradigms (review); Cases of nouns (review)

 

LABORATORY:

Introducing Textbook and useful links;

Exercises based on the previous lessons;

Reading and translating daily news from “Dnevni avaz” (B), “Jutarnji list” (C), and “Politika” (S);

Conversation applying the grammar rules;

Written tests: Dictation, Translation from BCS and to BCS

Discussion of the tests

Exam simulation

Readings/Bibliography

 

1. Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Textbook, With Exercises and Basic Grammar, by Ronelle Alexander and Ellen Elias-Bursać, The University of Wisconsin Press
2. Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian Audio Supplement, To Accompany Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Textbook, by Ronelle Alexander and Ellen Elias-Bursac, The University of Wisconsin Press
3. Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Grammar, With Sociolinguistic Commentary, by Ronelle Alexander, The University of Wisconsin Press

Teaching methods

Lectures and laboratory

Assessment methods

Monday 18.06.2012 at 11 A.M. written test (translation from Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian to English, translation from English to Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian); at 2 P.M. oral exam (a short conversation)

 

Monday 10.09.2012 at 11 A.M. written test (translation from Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian to English, translation from English to Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian); at 2 P.M. oral exam (a short conversation)

Teaching tools

1. Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Textbook, With Exercises and Basic Grammar, by Ronelle Alexander and Ellen Elias-Bursać, The University of Wisconsin Press
2. Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian Audio Supplement, To Accompany Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Textbook, by Ronelle Alexander and Ellen Elias-Bursac, The University of Wisconsin Press
3. Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Grammar, With Sociolinguistic Commentary, by Ronelle Alexander, The University of Wisconsin Press

Office hours

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