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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:
The course is mainly technical and there is not a direct link with disciplines of the high schools
Objectives
Contents How the natural languages work according to different level of analysis: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and the connections between them.
Extended Syllabus 1) Theoretical and methodological aspects: language properties, fundamental tools for language analysis.
2) The sounds of the language and of natural languages; phonetics, IPA, phonology and the contrastive analysis between the phonology of Italian and of other European languages.
3) Morphology: morph, different types morphemes, derivational and inflectional morphology, grammatical categories.
4) Syntax: constituents, phrases and their representation, pragmatic- functional structures of the utterances.
Recommended Bibliography For students who attend the lectures:
- G. Berruto - M. Cerruti, La linguistica. Un corso introduttivo, Torino, UTET, 2011
For students who do not attend the lectures:
- G. Berruto - M. Cerruti, La linguistica. Un corso introduttivo, Torino, UTET, 2011;
- G.C. Lepschy, La linguistica del Novecento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2000
Teaching Methods Classic lectures and seminars
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The course is organized in a way to favor the ongoing acquisition of the contents. Therefore, the students should take two in itinere written tests and the final oral exam
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