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.
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