Print syllabusAfrican Language and Culture 2S
General data
| Course ID: | 3600-7-AF4-JKA2S |
| Erasmus code / ISCED: |
09.8
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| Course title: | African Language and Culture 2S |
| Name in Polish: | Język i kultura afrykańska2S |
| Organizational unit: | Faculty of Oriental Studies |
| Course groups: | |
| ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): |
2.00
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| Language: | Polish |
| Type of course: | obligatory courses |
| Prerequisites (description): | (in Polish) |
| Mode: | Classroom |
| Short description: |
The course aims at training the students into comprehension of Swahili texts in the written and spoken forms. |
| Full description: |
The course offers an introduction to the knowledge of the Swahili language history and its dialects and focuses on the description of the Swahili grammar in regard to phonology and morphology. The contents of the course include the following topics discussed from the perspective of a theoretical analysis: • History of the Swahili people and language • Genetic classification and dialectal diversity of Swahili • Inventory and distribution of phonemes and allophones • Syllable structure in the native lexicon and in loanwords • Prosodic word (“minimality” principle) and accent • Morphophonological processes (prefixal, suffixal, vowel harmony) • Structure of nominal root and nominal categories • Productivity of nominal classes • Derivation of nouns from verbal bases • Structure of verbal root and verbal extensions • Verbal extensions: their combinations and frequency • Pronouns, ideophones and other grammatical categories |
| Bibliography: |
Amidu, A. A. 1995. „Kiswahili: People, language, literature and lingua franca”. Nordic Journal of African Studies 4/1: 104-125. Ashton, E. O. 1970 [1944]. Swahili Grammar. London: Longman. Barrett-Keach, C. 1986. „World internal evidence from Swahili for Aux/Infl.” Linguistic Inquiry 3: 559-569. Batibo, H. M. i F. Rottland. 1992. „The minimality condition in Swahili word forms”. Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 29: 89-110. Bertoncini-Zúbková, E. 1987. Kiswahili kwa furaha. Corso di lingua swahili, parte prima – grammatica e testi litterari. Napoli. Blommaert, J. 2005. „Situating linguistic rights: English and Swahili in Tanzania revisited”. Journal of Sociolinguistics 9/3: 390-417. Guthrie, M. 1967-1971. Comparative Bantu, vol.1-4. London: Gregg. Loogman, A. 1965. Swahili Grammar and Syntax. Louvain. Massamba, D. P. B. 1987. „The effect of language modernization on the phonological system of the Kiswahili language”. Kiswahili 54/1-2: 142-151. Nurse, D. i Th. Hinnebusch. 1993. Swahili and Sabaki: A Linguistic History. Berkley: University of California Press. Nurse, D. i Th. Spear. 1985. The Swahili: Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500. Philadelphia: University of Pensylvannia Press. Ohly, R., I. Kraska-Szlenk i Z. Podobińska. 1998. Język suahili. Warszawa: Dialog. Piłaszewicz, S. i E. Rzewuski. 2004. Wstęp do afrykanistyki (rozdział 8 ). Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Polomé, E. C. 1967. Swahili Language Handbook. Washington: CAL. |
| Learning outcomes: |
After completing the class the student performs a phonological and morphological analysis of the Swahili language and is capable of distinguishing its dialects. |
| Assessment methods and assessment criteria: |
A written examination comprising a test and an essay referring to the material presented during lectures. |
| Practical placement: |
(in Polish) brak |
Classes in period "Summer semester 2023/24" (in progress)
| Time span: | 2024-02-19 - 2024-06-16 |
 
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| Type of class: | (unknown) | |
| Coordinators: | (unknown) | |
| Group instructors: | (unknown) | |
| Students list: | (inaccessible to you) | |
| Examination: | Grading |
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