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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Disciplinary Sector:
HISTORICAL AND GENERAL LINGUISTICS
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
Conscious mastery of Italian in many of its registers, active and/or passive competence of one or more Italian dialects, knowledge of one or more ancient languages, knowledge of one or more foreign languages are desiderable.
Objectives Contents The faculty of Language and natural languages; genealogical and typological classification; phonetics and phonology; morphology; syntax; semantics; pragmatics.
Extended Syllabus Linguistics
The faculty of Language and natural languages; genealogical and typological classification; phonetics and phonology; morphology; syntax; semantics; pragmatics.
References: T. De Mauro, Che cos’è una lingua?, Roma, Sossella, 2008 (out of print book, provided by the lecturer); G. Berruto, M. Cerruti, La linguistica. Un corso introduttivo, Torino, UTET, 2011 (or subsequent editions); F. Albano Leoni, P. Maturi, Manuale di fonetica, Roma, Carocci, 2003 (3a ed.) (the first and the second chapters); C. Bazzanella, Linguistica e pragmatica del linguaggio. Un’introduzione, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2008 (or subsequent editions).
Recommended Bibliography - T. De Mauro, Che cos’è una lingua?, Roma, Sossella, 2008 (out of print book, provided by the lecturer);
Teaching Methods Classroom-taught lessons, with frequent exercises.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The final exam consists of an oral exam on the course contents, both in theoretical terms and in the application of linguistic analysis. The aim is to assess students’ skills and, in particular, an understanding of the issues discussed during the course and a correct command of the specific language as well as critical and methodological abilities will be evaluated. The grading scale goes from 1 to 30 with honours (cum laude): 1-17 fail, 18-21 sufficient, 22-24 fair, 25-27 good, 28-29 very good, 30-30 with honours (cum laude) excellent.
Contacts/More Information Attendance in this course is highly recommended. Students who cannot attend the course are kindly asked to take an appointment with the lecturer.
