Enrollment year
2009/2010
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
Curriculum
LINGUE PER L'IMPRESA
Period
1st semester (01/10/2009 - 13/01/2010)
Prerequisites
Instructions for use: the course is articulated in two parts, that will be taught in the first and the second trimester, respectively. There will be a written and an oral exam; to be able to take the oral exam, one has to pass the written exam. Written exam will take place at the end of the first semester, at the end of the second semester and in September.
Frequency is strongly recommended. In order to prepare the written exam students can profit of the assistance of tutors. Timetable of tutors'' presence can be found in the Department webpage.
Students who are not able to follow the lessons, are requested to contact the tutors for advice ; they are also requested to contact the teacher for agreeing upon the program.
Prerequisites are a good knowledge of Italian grammar, that will be the starting point for developing theoretical and methodological analyses according to the principles of linguistics
Learning outcomes
The course intends to offer first-year students the basic notions and the basic tools for the study of language.
Course contents
Different topics at the phonological, morphological and syntactic levels will be examined; some more theoretical insights will be also provided. For the exam, a basic knowledge of the levels of linguistic analysis is required, together with the capacity to apply rules to the analysis of empirical cases.
In the second trimester the topic of interphrasal connexion will be treated. Different types of coordination relations will be presented in a descriptive and typological framework. Particular attention will be paid to the connective means used in Italian, and comparative examples from European and non-European languages will be presented and analyzed.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Reccomended or required readings
Basic text-books:
Gaetano Berruto, Corso elementare di linguistica generale, Torino, UTET
Giorgio Graffi e Sergio,Scalise, Le lingue e il linguaggio, Bologna, Il Mulino
Reference texts for interclausal connection (second trimester):
C. Mauri. Coordination relations in the languages of Europe. Berlin, Mouton De Gruyter, 2008
L.Renzi-G.Salvi, Grande grammatica italiana di consultazione , Bologna, Il Mulino: una scelta di capitoli dai voll. I e II sarà indicata dal docente
Assessment methods
exercises during the course and the hours of the tutors
exam
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