- Docente: Sergio Scalise
- Credits: 9
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Foreign Languages and Literature (cod. 0979)
Learning outcomes
The student will be able to understand the basic modules od language: phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics and their possible interrelations both synchronically and diachonically. He will also know the most relevant 'paradigms' of theorerical linguistics and their epistemologic bases. The student will also have an idea of the various types of linguistics: psychologuistics, sociolingusitics, lexicology, computational linguistics, etc.He will be albe to analyze a text at different levels: phonological, morphological, sintactic and semantic.
Course contents
Properties of human language. Linguistic levels (phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics). Native speakers - Rules and representations- Semantics, syntax, morphology and their interrelations- Linguistic Typology
Syncronic and diachronic aspects. Abstractness- Langue and parole - Code and message. Competence and performance. Syntagmatic and paradigmantic aspects- Linguistic sign. Functions of language- Phonetics- Phones and phonemes - Classification of sounds
- Phonological oppositions- Allophones - Brackets. Linguistic
significative generalizations. Assiliations. suprasegmental
facts-
Morfology · Definitions- inflection · Prefixes and suffixes -Lexical categories · Lemmatization · Classes of words
Categories and subcategories · morphemes morphematic analysis · Morfemes: free and bound, gramatical and lexical Problematic aspects of the notion of morpheme.
Lexicon Morphemes and
meaning · Word Formation
rules · Allomorphy and
suppletion · Abstract nouns and
result nouns · Compounding
The head in compounds -
Percolation-
Classification of compounds-
Compounds and phrases
· Plural in compounds. Deverbal
compounds.
· Properties of syntax-
Mentalism and innatism- Parameters of universal grammar -
Phrases - Sentences - Classification of sentences -
Transformations - Subject and predicate Inflectional
categories
· Theoretical linguistics versus sociolinguistics - Sociolinguistics and sociology of language . centralization in Martha's Vineyard - Linguistic community - Codes and subcodes - Communicative competence.
-Indouropean families. Phonetic laws - Linguistic change.
Readings/Bibliography
Giorgio Graffi - Sergio Scalise, Le lingue e il linguaggio,
Bologna, Il Mulino.
Ferdinand de Saussure, corso di linguistica Generale, Bari, Laterza
(le prime 163 pagine)
Nicola Grandi, Tipologia, Roma, Carocci.
Teaching methods
Metodology is both theoretical and empirical: theoretical modles
are confronted with lingguistic data from various languages of the
world
Assessment methods
The exam is written: 15 open questions. The student will be
required to give definitions and produce analysis of linguistic
data.
Teaching tools
Web sites of linguistics - database - MorboComp
Office hours
See the website of Sergio Scalise