2015/2016

2015/2016

DM270

L-LIN/20 (MODERN GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS AND MODERN LANGUAGES

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

2nd semester (22/02/2016 - 28/05/2016)

6

36 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

TENTORIO GILDA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

None

The course is composed of two modules.
1) Language: the aim is to provide a general foundation in the Neogreek language, in order to cope with a range of everyday communicative situations, when interacting at a basic level, orally and in writing.
2) Literature: Analysis of significant texts (prose,poetry,drama), with particular attention to the XXth century authors; focus on the ancient/modern Greece question.

* Alphabet, pronunciation and phonetic rules
* Genres: masculine, feminine, neuter
* Constituents of the noun phrase: articles, nouns and adjectives (first type)
* Verbal Morphology. Present tense: "to be" and conjugations (I and II): regular, auxiliary and some irregular verbs; "deponent" verbs
* Personal, possessive, interrogative pronouns; demonstrative pronouns/adjectives
* Numerals
* Prepositions
* Constituents of the verb phrase and use of the tenses
* Main clauses and simple subordinate clauses
* Adverbs: manner,place, time, quantity
* Verbal tenses (perfective and imperfective forms): the case of the future
* Active "aorist" I conjug. and use in subordinate clauses
* Communication in everyday situations
* Introduction to XXth Greek literature (historical-cultural panorama)

Lectures based on powerpoint slides, texts, supplementary teacher's explainations, videos and films.

LANGUAGE

Student Book: //Ellinika A'. Methodos ekmathisis tis ellinikis os xenis glossas (epipeda A1+A2)//, Pavlopoulou A., Simòpoulos G., Kanellopoulou R., Pathiaki I., Edizioni Pataki, Atene 2010 [formato cartaceo o ebook/pdf]

Dictionaries:
-//Greco moderno-italiano, italiano-greco moderno//, Seconda edizione, Zanichelli, Bologna 2013
-//Greco antico-neogreco e italiano. Dizionario dei prestiti e dei parallelismi//, a cura di A.Kolonia e M.Peri, Zanichelli, Bologna 2008

History of Neogreek Language: selected pages from important essays (in Italian/English)

Literature and Culture:
-Mario Vitti, //Storia della letteratura neogreca//, Carocci, Roma 2001
-From a list of significant titles: a novel in Italian translation
-History : Richard Clogg, //Storia della Grecia moderna : dalla caduta dell'impero bizantino a oggi // Bompiani, Milano 1996 (trad. Andrea Di Gregorio); Thanos Beremes-J.Koliopoulos, //La Grecia moderna: una storia che inizia nel 1821//, Argo, Lecce 2014
-Chapter from Gilda Tentorio, // Binari, ruote & ali in Grecia. Immagini letterarie e veicoli di senso //, UniversItalia, Roma 2015

Non-attending students and Erasmus students are invited to contact the teacher for an alternative program.

Oral examination, after a written test (comprehension and production). The oral exam consists of two parts. Language: conversation in Neogreek to check the level. Literature: Critical Analysis of selected pages (in Italian).
Non-attending students and Erasmus students are invited to contact the teacher.