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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:
Having taken the General Linguistics exam is required.
Objectives
Contents This course, divided into two parts, introduces and develops the basics of comparative and Indo-European studies in the former, with the reconstruction of Indo-European on a linguistic and cultural level; in the latter, it tackles and discusses language classification from a genealogical, typological and areal viewpoint.
Extended Syllabus The course is divided into two parts:
Part I
Theoretical and methodological aspects of Historical Linguistics
- the historical-comparative method;
- the Indo-European language family;
- the main phonological features of Indo-European languages;
- linguistic and cultural reconstruction of Indo-European.
Part II
Classification of languages
- genealogical classification;
- typological classification;
- areal classification.
Recommended Bibliography - F. FANCIULLO, Introduzione alla linguistica storica, Bologna, Il Mulino.
- A. NOCENTINI, L’Europa linguistica: profilo storico e tipologico, Firenze, Le Monnier.
- Further teaching material provided by the teacher will be available online.
Teaching Methods Taught classes together with practice drills aimed at theoretical in-depth analysis of the issues dealt with in class, and at their practical application.
Given the technical quality of the discipline, attendance is warmly recommended.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Final oral test.
Students who regularly attended are allowed and given the opportunity to take two optional ongoing tests during the Course. They will be in the form of a written questionnaire made up of open questions with predefined response space and multiple-choice questions; the final score will result from the average of the scores got in the single tests. The students who have obtained a final score of at least 18/30 will be allowed, if they wish, to dispense with the oral test, by entering directly the mark resulting from the average of the written tests.
Contacts/More Information For any clarification related to the topics dealt with in class or to reference bibliography, please address the teacher during her reception time or contact her via mail.