Enrollment year
2016/2017
Academic discipline
L-LIN/01 (GLOTTOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
(26/09/2016 - 11/01/2017)
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN TEST
Prerequisites
The course can be taken only by students who have already taken module a, which constitutes the prerequisite.
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to provide first-year students with the basic methodological instruments for the study of language.
At the end of the course, students will be able to analyse (mostly Italian) sentences, providing a description of the morphosyntactic structure and of the main phonological, pragmatic and semantic properties. Furthermore, they will handle the basic notions useful for understanding the dimensions of variation of a language.
Students will acquire the basic knowledge for continuing their studies in the field of linguistics, language history and philology.
Course contents
The second part of the course of general linguistics present a more detailed study of some issues already discussed in the first part, in the light of different linguistic theories. After a short historical introduction, different contemporary approaches to linguistic theory (forma and functional) will be introduced, and the students will be familiarized with different treatments, both synchronic and diachronic, of the relation among linguistic levels (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics).
Teaching methods
Lectures, tutoring
During the whole academing year, beside lectures by the course instructor, students will be able to attend a tutoring service, where they will make exercises both to consolidate the notions learned during the course and to prepare for the final written exam.
Reccomended or required readings
GOBBER-MORANI Linguistica generale.
McGraw Hill 2014
For exercises:
S. Luraghi, A. M. Thornton, La linguistica generale: esercitazioni e autoverifica. Roma, Carocci, 2004
S. Luraghi, F. Venier, Esercizi di semantica e pragmatica. Roma, Carocci 2009
Further references, materials and exercises will be made available online.
Assessment methods
Written exam. The exam consists of a series of questions and exercises on specific issues of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics.
Further information
Group tutoring will be provided.
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