2009/2010

2009/2010

DM270

L-FIL-LET/04 (LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS AND MODERN LANGUAGES

IL LINGUAGGIO: VARIAZIONE DIACRONICA E SINCRONICA, ACQUISIZIONE, ASPETTI COMPUTAZIONALI

1°

1st semester (01/10/2009 - 13/01/2010)

6

30 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

GASTI FABIO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Students must have previously passed the examination of Lingua e Letteratura latina.

Deepening of language skills by learning the historical evolution of Latin (phonetics, morphology and syntax). The course will provide an adequate //example// of this development, through the examination and interpretation of texts from different historical periods.

Analysis of some relevant phonetic, morphological and syntactic elements of Latin language from a diachronic perspective.

Linguistic and lexical notes on some archaic texts.

Lectures

* A. Traina, G. Bernardi Perini, //Propedeutica al latino universitario.// Ed. by C. Marangoni, Bologna, Pàtron, 1995: I (//La storia del latino//), II (//La pronunzia//), III (//La quantità e l’accento//), IV (//Problemi di fonetica//), V (//Problemi di morfologia//), VI (//Problemi di sintassi//).

* I. Mazzini, //Storia della lingua latina e del suo contesto//, I: //Linguistica e lingua letteraria//, Roma, Salerno ed., 2007.

Oral text