ITALIAN LINGUISTICS AND HISTORY OF ITALIAN

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

FLT008

Academic Year of enrolment:

2019

Year of supply:

2019/2020

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in PHILOLOGY, LINGUISTICS AND LITERARY TRADITIONS

Moduls:

ITALIAN LINGUISTICS - 6 credits
HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE - 6 credits

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Knowledge of the main problems of Italian linguistic history and of the fundamental elements of linguistic analysis.

Objectives

The teaching will contribute to achievement of the learning objectives of the Course of Study in Philology, linguistics and literary traditions, in particular along the following lines:
Knowledge and Understanding
In-depth knowledge of the main features of the Italian language (as expected by learning objectives of the Course); knowledge of the main typologies of written texts and their features in ancient Italian; ability to orient oneself in the debate on continuity or discontinuity over the centuries of Italian structures (even compared to other Romance varieties).
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
Ability to examine a text and describe its phonological, morphological, syntactical and lexical features; ability to recognise a text (written or spoken) also in relation to textual typology; ability to use specialist consultation tools (grammars, dictionaries, archives) for the purposes of linguistic analysis; ability to collect firsthand linguistic data and organise them for the purposes of in-depth analysis (as expected by learning objectives of the Course).
Independence of Judgement
Ability to judge independently the accuracy and coherence of a linguistic analysis on the basis of available data and the methods of investigation employed; ability to assess the communicational adequacy of a text in relation to context and end purposes.
Communications skills
Ability to express learnt content, with full mastery of the written and spoken language, with view to communication in both specialised and lay situations (as expected by learning objectives of the Course).

Learning Capacity
Complete mastery of research and analysis methodologies in the linguistic field, thus gaining access to further education courses such as research Doctorate or master’s or to a teaching qualification, not to mention employment opportunities in publishing houses, public/private research and cultural institutes and cultural and academic foundations (as expected by learning objectives of the Course).

Contents

I. Italian linguistics
What is ancient Italian?

The course puts forward an overview of the differences between ancient Italian and modern Italian. After a reflection on the difficulty of circumscribing the notion itself of "ancient Italian", we will highlight the main orthographic, phonological, morphological, syntactic, textual and lexical features of the language before grammatical coding, also through the direct analysis of Tuscan and other geographical areas texts belonging to the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Extended Syllabus

Topics dealt with in the lessons: definition of ancient Italian; continuity and discontinuity tra italiano antico e italiano moderno; orthographic and phonomorphological features of the ancient Florentine and evolutionary traits in the fifteenth and fifteenth centuries; syntactic and lexical features of the ancient Florentine; phonological, morphological and syntactic features of other languages in medieval Italy; text typologies of ancient Italian; the vernacular translations; reading and analysis of texts of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
how to get to today’s Italian, proposal of a historical path and hints on the long journey of the Italian language; the many varieties used by Italians: linguistic variation, variety, uses, and texts; the language we live in: the Italian between norm and use; the grammar of Italian.

Recommended Bibliography

I. Italian Linguistics
1) Lorenzo Renzi, Italiano antico, in Enciclopedia dell’italiano, a cura di R. Simone, Roma, Treccani, 2010, pp. 713-16.
2) Paola Manni, Toscana, in Storia della lingua italiana, a cura di L. Serianni e P. Trifone, Torino, Einaudi, 1994, vol. 3, pp. 294-329.
3) Giampaolo Salvi, Sintassi dell’italiano antico, in Manuale di linguistica italiana, a cura di S. Lubello, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2016, pp. 62-89.
4) Giuseppe Patota, Le lingue d’Italia nel Medioevo, in Nuovi lineamenti di grammatica storica dell’italiano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007, pp. 185-206.
5) Giovanna Frosini, Volgarizzamenti, in Storia dell’italiano scritto, a cura di G. Antonelli, M. Motolese, L. Tomasin, Roma, Carocci, 2014, vol. 2, pp. 17-72.
6) Texts read and commented in class. Non-attending students will replace texts read in class with Roberta Cella, La prosa narrativa dalle origini al Settecento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2013, only pp. 17-102. All the students from the course LM-38 will add the essay of Riccardo Gualdo, Il linguaggio dell’economia, in Riccardo Gualdo, Stefano Telve, Linguaggi specialistici dell’italiano, Roma, Carocci, 2011, pp. 357-410.
Essays from 1) to 5) will be available in pdf among teaching materials (https://www.dilass.unich.it/node/6865).

II. History of Italian Language
Attending students:
1) L'italiano: strutture, usi, varietà, a cura di Rita Librandi, Roma, Carocci, 2019 (chapters I and VI);
2) L'e-italiano. Scriventi e scritture nell'era digitale, a cura di Sergio Lubello, Firenze, Cesati, 2018 (chapters I, III, IV);
3) Giuseppe Antonelli, La lingua in cui viviamo. Guida all'italiano scritto, parlato, digitato, Milano, BUR, 2017.
4) Lecture notes and photocopies provided by the teacher.

Non-attending students:
1) L'italiano: strutture, usi, varietà, a cura di Rita Librandi, Roma, Carocci, 2019 (chapters I, VI);
2) L'e-italiano. Scriventi e scritture nell'era digitale, a cura di Sergio Lubello, Firenze, Cesati, 2018.
3) Giuseppe Antonelli, La lingua in cui viviamo. Guida all'italiano scritto, parlato, digitato, Milano, BUR, 2017.
4) Luca Serianni, L'italiano. Parlare, scrivere, digitare. Con un saggio di Giuseppe Antonelli, Roma, Treccani, 2019.

Teaching Methods

Lectures, Power points, seminars.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Oral exam with marks out of 30, aimed at verifying the ability to expose the arguments presented during the course with clarity and autonomy of judgment. 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.

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Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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