30370 - Latin Grammar (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

The following knowledge and skills will be requested:
1. the ability to translate the texts in Latin listed in the program;
2. knowledge of phonetics, morphology and syntax;
3. the ability of carrying out a linguistic analysis of the studied texts.

Course contents

Please note that the integrated course of Grammar and History of Latin Language (12 ects) will start with the course of History of the Latin Language, held by Bruna Pieri; classes will start on the 24th of September 2018. The Latin Grammar course, held by Daniele Pellacani, will start as soon as History of the Latin Language's classes are over.

I. Classes

• Elements of Latin grammar, with a main focus on syntax and its connections with style
  
• Violent deaths of illustrious men: readings from Sallustius' De coniuratione Catilinae; Tacitus, Annales; Svetonius, De vita Caesarum; Historia Augusta

II. Individual work

• Livio, Ab Urbe condita, I praef. - 31 (in Latin)
• Latin syntaxis
  

ATTENTION: THE LESSONS WILL START SOON AFTER THE END OF THE COURSE OF HISTORY OF LATIN LANGUAGE (PROF.SSA PIERI).

Readings/Bibliography

• Latin texts will be delivered during class and will be uploaded among the on-line teaching materials.
• Tito Livio, Ab urbe condita, I praef. - 31. The recommended edition is: Tito Livio, Storia di Roma dalla sua fondazione. Volume I. Libri I-II, con un saggio di R. Syme, introduzione e note di C. Moreschini, traduzione di M. Scandola, Milano, BUR, 1982 (variously reprinted). Non-italian speakers can ask the teacher for information about English / French / Spanish editions.
• For the study of the syntax the reading of A. Traina- T. Bertotti, Sintassi normativa della lingua latina, Bologna 1993 is supposed, as well as the study of chapters I-VII of A.Traina-G.Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino universitario, Bologna (Pàtron)1995. The reading of A. Ernout- F. Thomas, Syntaxe latine, Paris 1953 (2a ed., variously reprinted) is just recommended, as well as the reading of A. Traina, Riflessioni sulla storia della lingua latina, in F. Stolz, A. Debrunner, W.P. Schmid, Storia della lingua latina, Bologna 1993 (4 ed.), VII-XXV.
• Further bibliography will be added during class.

 

Students not joining classes are supposed to prepare a different Latin text that must be chosen by an agreement with the teacher.

Teaching methods

Lectures in class. One lesson will be devoted to a written test (translation of a Latin text + questions on morpho-syntaxis);  Erasmus students are allowed to translate into  English, or French, or German, or Spanish as well. 

Assessment methods

Students attending the integrated course of Grammar and History of Latin Language will be awarded an average final mark based on the assessments of each module.

The following assessment methods deal only with the module of Latin Grammar:

Viva voce examination (30 minutes), which , through reading and translating from the Latin texts dealt with in class and listed in the program, will test  the ability of understanding and translating the studied texts and  the main linguistic aspects  (phonetics, morphology and syntax) of Latin.

Assessment guidelines:

• failing grades: lack of basic linguistic knowledge and inability to produce a correct translation and interpretation of th text.
• passing grades: language proficiency at an intermediate level; translation and interpretation of the texts mostly correct, but inaccurate and lacking autonomy
• excellent grades: language proficiency at an upper-mid level; translation and interpretation of the texts not only correct, but performed with autonomy and precision
  
  Erasmus students are allowed to attend the exam - as far as translation from Latin is concerned - in English, French, German or Spanish.

Teaching tools

Online teaching materials (see webpage above).

 

Office hours

Thursday, 11-13 (via Zamboni 32, 3rd floor, room 56)

Office hours

See the website of Daniele Pellacani