HISTORY OF THE LATIN LANGUAGE

Enrollment year

2012/2013

Academic year

2014/2015

Regulations

DM270

Academic discipline

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

Department

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

Course

HUMANITIES

Curriculum

LETTERE ANTICHE

Year of study

3°

Period

1st semester (22/09/2014 - 22/12/2014)

ECTS

Lesson hours

36 lesson hours

Language

ITALIAN

Activity type

ORAL TEST

Teacher

GASTI FABIO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Prerequisites

Students must have previously passed the examination of Lingua e Letteratura latina (avanced course) and Letteratura latina 1 (avanced course).

Learning outcomes

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

Course contents

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

Linguistic and lexical notes on some archaic texts.

Teaching methods

Lectures

Reccomended or required readings

History of Language

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.

Linguistic Competence

Students must translate:

Plautus, Miles gloriosus
Apuleius, Metamorphoses, Book 9

Assessment methods

Oral text

Further information

Oral text

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