- Docente: Nicola Grandi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-LIN/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 0973)
Learning outcomes
Students will acquire basic notions of
theoretical linguistics with special reference to synchronic
models of linguistic analysis. They will be exposed to issues
concerning acoustic, articulatory and perceptual properties of
speech sounds from a linguistic perspective (phonetics), and the
system of rules, representations and principles governing the
structures of sounds (the "grammar of sounds" or phonololgy). They
will learn about the structure and the rule- based processes of
word construction in different languages (morphology) and will
understand how words combine each other to build up grammatical
sentences (syntax)
Students will also be exposed to the problems connected to the
nature of meaning, the relations meaning/linguistic form (both at a
lexical and phrasal level) and the interaction between linguistic
form and context in human communication (semantics)
Course contents
The key concepts of general linguistics will be introduced (the difference between language and human languages, the 'Saussurian' oppositions such as synchrony vs. diachrony, syntagmatic vs. paradigmatic, etc.). We will then focus on different levels of analysis; particular attention will be devoted to morpho-syntax and semantics).
Readings/Bibliography
Graffi, G. / Scalise S. (2002), Le lingue e il linguaggio,
Bologna, Il Mulino
F. de Saussure, Corso di lingusitica generale
(only first parte: Principi
generali and second part: La linguistica
sincronica).
Other material can be downloaded from the web site www.grandionline.net/nicola/didattica
Teaching methods
Lessons will be given as lectures. During
each class, lessons' notes, handouts and other materials will be
made available to the students.
Assessment methods
The final test will consist in an oral exam on the lessons' content and on the course's recommended readings (see "Testi").
Teaching tools
Graphs and data will be included in
Power Point presentations. Slides, lessons' notes, handouts and
other materials will be made available to the
students.
Office hours
See the website of Nicola Grandi