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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Disciplinary Sector:
Semitistics - Languages and Literature of Ethiopia
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
Knowledge of the Arabic script and some basic grmmatical characters of Arabic. Basic knowledge of general linguistics and grammar, including essentials of lgical and grammatical analysis.
Objectives Contents The course intends to offer the basic elements to understand historically the linguistic realities of Arabic in the framewhork of the Semitic language family, an overview of the linguistic thought of Arabic grammatical schools and its intellectual relevance, and an outline paleography and epigraphy of the Arabian peninsula. A sketch of the question of diglossia and Arabic dialectoligy will also be discussed.
Recommended Bibliography 1) Ahmad al-Jallad, "A Manual of the Historical Grammar of Arabic", 2020, pp. 1-45.
Teaching Methods Lessons will be as participatory as possible.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The exam will be an oral interview. Students will be askeed to show the ability to orient through the linguistic history of the Semitic family, discuss their classification and evolution in context and the development of Arabic linguistic thought and of writing. Students will be asked to locate the phenomena studied in sppace and time, and it may be asked to visually recognise and contextualise inscriptions or manuscript fragments discussed during the course.
Contacts/More Information Supplemental material will be shared by the teacher.
