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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
Knowledge of a modern Slavic language.
Objectives
Contents The Slavic world from the origins to our day. This course has two parts: 1. Historical and cultural introduction; the Slavic geography; Christianization and literacy of the Slavic peoples. 2. Slavic linguistics (from Indo-european to slavic languages; from the paleo Slavic to modern Slavic languages).
Extended Syllabus 1. The original site of Slavic peoples. The great migrations. The rise of Slavic languages. The alphabets.
2. Cyril's and Methodius' mission. Catholic and Orthodox Slavia. Old Church Slavonic and its local redactions.
3. Byzantium and the Slavic world; the first and second Bulgarian empire; the Serbian empire and the kievan Rus. First, second, and third southern Slavic influences for the evolution of the Russian literary language.
4.The creation of Moscovia.
5. From Indo-European to Slavic languages: the law of open syllables; Proto-Slavic phonetics; Morphological elements.
6.Analysis of some short Slavic Orthodox texts.
7. basic elements of the formation of the Russian literary language (only for L11 students).
Recommended Bibliography - A. Cantarini, Lineamenti di fonologia slava, Ed. La Scuola,
Brescia 1989;
- N. Marcialis, Introduzione alla lingua paleoslava, FUP, Firenze, 2007;
- F. Conte, Gli slavi. Le civiltà dell’Europa centrale e orientale,
Einaudi, Torino, 1991;
- M. Capaldo, Lo spazio letterario del Medioevo. 3. Le culture circostanti, vol.III, Salerno editrice, Roma, 2006.
- M. Garzaniti, Gli slavi, Carocci, Roma 2013
- B.A. Uspenskij, Storia della lingua letteraria russa, Il Mulino, Bologna 1993;
Teaching Methods Regular lessons, class presentations.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The final oral exam will assess the student's acquisition of the basic notions and issues of the course. The student's ability to contextualize and critically discuss the materials will also be assessed. The grading scale is from 1 to 30, and the exam will be evaluated on the basis of the the correctness and completeness of the answers with respect to the indicated criteria. An excellent score ((27-30) will be given to students who show an in-depth knowledge of the course contents, are able to contextualize their knowledge and critically discuss it. A good score (22-26) will be given to students who know the course contents and are able to establsih links among them; a sufficient score (18-21) will be given to students able to present the main contents of the course. An insufficient score will be given to students who do not know the basic notions and topics of the course.
Contacts/More Information My office hours can be found at:
https://www.lingue.unich.it/node/6857
Further indications on the bibliography will be given at the beginning of the course. Students who cannot attend are kindly invited to contact me. Students of L12 (6CFU) will have a shortened bibliography.