ITALIAN LINGUISTICS
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2021/2022
- Teacher
- FABIO ROMANINI
- Credits
- 12
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- L-FIL-LET/12
Training objectives
- KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
1 - to know linguistic variation in contemporary Italian;
2 - to know the main structures of Italian grammar;
3 - to know the evolution of the Italian language, even with literary references, from the Origins to the present days.
APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
1 - To notice in literary and non-literary texts the changes due to linguistic variation;
2 - to know how to identify and describe the structures of the Italian language in the texts;
3 - to discuss the historical evolution of the Italian language through the knowledge of the main authors.
MAKING JUDGEMENTS
- To know how to interprete a text by analyzing its linguistic and argumentative structure.
COMMUNICATIONS SKILLS
1 - To learn and use the technical terms of linguistics;
2 - To know how to report and argue about the issues dealt with in the course.
LEARNING SKILLS
1 - To know how to analyze a text through the categories of structure and linguistic variety;
2 - To develop a skill in observing the argumentative structure of a text. Prerequisites
- - Basic skills in Italian Grammar.
- A previous, even elementary knowledge of Latin is useful. Students who have never had Latin in school may consult one of the many Latin grammar books for the high school.
- Non-native speakers attending the course are requested to be fluent in Italian. Course programme
- PROGRAMME: Sociolinguistics of contemporary Italian language, Grammar (notes on phonology, morphology, lexicon, syntax) and History of Italian language.
The course aims to combine historical notions of the linguistic discipline with the analysis of the characteristics of contemporary Italian. The first section of the course will be dedicated to some recent features of the basic categories of linguistics. The following lessons will introduce the variation in the use of language depending on the social situation and condition. Particular attention will be devoted to the historical grammar, useful to a linguistic analysis of literary and non-literary texts, which will be the main topic of the third part of the course. Didactic methods
- N.B. To cope with the COVID-19 emergency situation and to limit the inconvenience of students, the "teaching methods" and the "ways of verifying learning" can take place in a different way than that described in the Teaching Sheet.
For the calendar of face-to-face lessons and meetings, check the Useful Information page of the course.
There will be a frontal lesson and two live streaming lessons per week. Learning assessment procedures
- N.B: written and oral examination will take place in the classroom; if the health conditions do not allow it, alternative methods will be promptly indicated (live streaming).
The examination consists of a written questionnaire (with questions that require a short open answer) and oral questions. Reference texts
- Compulsory bibliography for attending students:
1) Angela Ferrari, Luciano Zampese, Grammatica: parole, frasi, testi dell’italiano, Roma, Carocci, 2016.
2) Massimo Palermo, Linguistica italiana, seconda edizione, Bologna, il Mulino, 2020, pp. 1-164 and 207-280 (chap. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7).
3) Claudio Marazzini, Breve storia della lingua italiana, Bologna, il Mulino, 2004;
4) Giuseppe Patota, Nuovi lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano, Bologna, il Mulino, 2007.
5) slides discussed during the lessons.
Students attending the degree in Lingue e letterature moderne can replace Patota’s book with:
4) Emanuele Banfi, Nicola Grandi, Lingue d’Europa: elementi di storia e di tipologia linguistica, nuova edizione, Roma, Carocci, 2021.
Students attending the degree in Scienze filosofiche e dell’educazione can replace Patota’s book with:
4) Marina Sbisà, Detto non detto. Le forme della comunicazione implicita, Bari, Laterza, 2007.
OR
4) Maria G. Lo Duca, Lingua italiana ed educazione linguistica, nuova edizione, Roma, Carocci, 2013.
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Compulsory bibliography for non-attending students:
- All the bibliography listed above except for n° 3, which must be replaced with:
3) Claudio Marazzini, La lingua italiana. Storia, testi, strumenti, seconda edizione, Bologna, il Mulino, 2015;
and n° 5, replaced with:
Gaetano Berruto, Saggi di sociolinguistica e linguistica, Alessandria, Ed. dell’Orso, 2012, only the essays: Lingua, dialetto, diglossia, dilalia (pp. 3-24); Le varietà del repertorio (pp. 25-49); Sul parlante nativo (di italiano) (pp. 87-99); L’italiano popolare e la semplificazione linguistica (pp. 141-181); Per una caratterizzazione del parlato (183-212); «Dislocazioni a sinistra» e «grammatica» dell’italiano parlato (pp. 213-230); Le dislocazioni a destra in italiano (pp. 231-242); Un tratto sintattico dell’italiano parlato: il c’è presentativo (pp. 243-251).
