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HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE Single discipline educational activity
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Contents The course aims to provide a picture of the history of the Italian language, paying particular attention to the evolution of Italian linguistic structures starting from the first vulgar documents up to the contemporary and dealing the main arguments of the theoretical debate on the question of language. In the in-depth module will be examined, through the reading and analysis of the texts, the evolution of Italian narrative prose from the thirteenth century vulgarizations to the eighteenth-century novels, passing through authors such as Boccaccio, Sacchetti, Bembo, Grazzini, Bandello, Frugoni, Chiari and Piazza.
Extended Syllabus Arguments dealt with in the lessons: the phonological system of Italian; the transition from Latin to Italian; the phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical evolution of Italian throughout the centuries; the tools of the discipline (grammars, vocabularies, repertoires); the question of language over the centuries; the external linguistic history of Italian from Origins to today; the linguistic features of Italian narrative prose from the origins to the eighteenth century.
Recommended Bibliography 1) Luca Serianni, Lezioni di grammatica storica italiana, Roma, Bulzoni, 1998 (or later editions).
2) Claudio Marazzini, La lingua italiana. Storia, testi, strumenti. Seconda edizione, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2015 (or later editions).
3) Roberta Cella, La prosa narrativa: dalle origini al Settecento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2013.
4) Materials read and analyzed in class. Non-attending students will replace the study of the materials analyzed in class with chapters I, II, III by Laura Ricci, Paraletteratura. Lingua e stile dei generi di consumo, Roma, Carocci, 2013, pp. 13-65.
Teaching Methods 63 hours, subdivided into teacher up front lessons, exercises and 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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