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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Disciplinary Sector:
Languages and Literature of China and South East Asia
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
The course is suitable for students who have acquired the written and oral competence expected after attending the Chinese Language First Year Course.
Objectives
Contents This course is a continuation of the study of modern Chinese grammar and lexicon initiated in the Chinese Language First year course. The main contents consists in verbal complements and in the expression of verb aspect. Particular focus will also be given to modal particles (particle ‘le’) and to some specific kinds of sentences (pivotal sentences, relative clauses, etc.)
Extended Syllabus This course is aimed at continuing the study of Chinese basic grammar, and, at the same time, increasing both the oral and written language proficiency previously acquired.
The topics covered are as follows:
- location words;
- pivotal sentences;
- sentences used as noun modifiers (“relative clauses”);
- modal particle ‘le’;
- aspect particle ‘le’-‘zhe’-‘guo’;
- ‘shi...de’ contruction;
- duration complement;
- quantity complement;
- complement of result;
- complement of degree;
- approximation of numbers;
- transposition of the object before the verb (preposition ‘ba’);
- most common coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
Recommended Bibliography - MASINI F, ZHANG TONGBING, BAI HUA, DI TORO A., LIANG DONGMEI, Il Cinese per gli italiani – Corso intermedio, Hoepli, Milano, 2012 (Second edition);
- COLANGELO L. (ed.), Buone feste! 节日快乐!, Hoepli, Milano, 2012 (only the texts explained in class).
- ABBIATI M., Grammatica del Cinese Moderno, Cafoscarina, Venezia, 1998
- ABBIATI M., La lingua cinese, Cafoscarina, Venezia, 1992;
Further bibliographical material might be provided in class.
Teaching Methods Classes (48 hours in total) including mid-term tests (students are required to translate sentences and short passages from Italian into Chinese and viceversa). Homework (sentence translation and grammar excercises) will be corrected and discussed in class.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
- Mid-term tests (translating sentences and short texts from Italian into Chinese and vicecersa, grammar exercises).
- Final written and oral exams. The written exam, of a two hours duration, consists in translating sentences from Italian into Chinese and translating a short text from Chinese into Italian (the use of dictionaries is not permitted). The oral exam consists in reading, translating and analysing (from a morpho-syntactic perspective) texts in both simplified and non-simplified characters (previously explained in class). In order to be admitted to the oral examination, students must have passed the written one. For the purposes of the final result (i.e. grade) of the exam, the written and oral examination are equally important. The final result, at the end of the oral exam, is expressed with a 30-point scale (passing: 18 to 30 cum laude).
Contacts/More Information It is highly recommended that students attend classes. Besides classes, the teacher will set weekly consultation hours (office hours) for students who need clarifications or assistance with their study (information about: programme, examinations, thesis, etc.)