84750 - Italian Language and Grammar (Lm)

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this course, it is expected that the student will know the methodological grounds of the Italian language and the main references for studying (and teaching) the Italian grammar and lexicon. She/he will also know the historical development of the Italian language, the rules that have been proposed during time, the present evolution of the language and the perspectives in the XXI century. Main attention during the course will be payed to the correct and accurate use of the Italian language, to the knowledge of its current use and of its cultural traditions.

Course contents

The course means to give the basic and essential principles of the Italian language, both to foreign and mother tongue students. It will show and discuss the reasons supporting rules and practices, more or less allowable, the grammar and the lexicon used in the different regions, in the history and at the present. Indeed, the language currently spoken depends on the history of the language, even though evolution and dynamism characterize all spoken languages. The course will also guide the students to the consultation of the written and online available bibliographies and it will teach the correct use of vocabularies. It will help the students to interpret the written texts and also to write their own texts, for different aims and in different fields. In the following will be list the recommended didactic material for the course, divided in three groups:

Group A: references for the general description of the Italian language

Group B: grammar books or references for description of the language (the two topics have a lot in common!)

Group C: information technology resources that can be consulted at home.

Readings/Bibliography

Here you find:
A- some good manuals on the Italian language in general;
B - grammars or descriptions of the language (the two categories have in common many points!);
C - computer tools availables also from house or from the postings UniBo.

A

I. Bonomi, A. Masini, S. Morgana, M. Piotti, Elementi di linguistica italiana, Roma, Carocci, 2010
P. D'Achille, L'italiano contemporaneo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010
M. Dardano, Nuovo manualetto di linguistica italiana, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2017
L. Lorenzetti, L’italiano contemporaneo, Roma, Carocci, 2002
F. Marri, R. Lugaresi, S. Rizzardi, Riflessioni sull'italiano, Bologna, Dupress, 2008
M. Palermo, Linguistica italiana, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2015
L. Serianni, G. Antonelli, Manuale di linguistica italiana, Milano, Pearson, 2017
A. Sobrero, A. Miglietta, Introduzione alla linguistica italiana, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2007.

B

The grammars of reference, to consult to the necessity, are:

L. Serianni, Grammatica italiana, Torino, Utet, 2005 (synthesis: Prima lezione di grammatica, Bari, Laterza, 2006)

P. D'Achille, Breve grammatica storica dell'italiano, Roma, Carocci, 2001
A.L. - G. Lepschy, La lingua italiana, Milano, Bompiani, 2002

For knowledge and discussions:  

G. Antonelli, L'italiano nella società della comunicazione 2.0, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016
V. Coletti, Grammatica dell’italiano adulto, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2015
E. Lombardi Vallauri, Parlare l’italiano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016
L. Renzi, Come cambia la lingua. L'italiano in movimento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012.

Group C, encyclopedic Resources and online

What needs us is almost all found in the Enciclopedia dell’italiano, Roma, Enciclopedia italiana (Treccani) 2010-2011, attainable also online, voice for voice, to the address www.treccani.it.
Other sites, among the so many, that offer useful treatments to our purposes are:
www.accademiadellacrusca.it
www.zanichelli.it
www.grammaticaitaliana.eu

A great deal of information it is gotten by the section “Servizi e opportunità… Biblioteche” of the site www.unibo.it, that makes also free precious bibliographical resources available for the linguistics-literary documentation.

Teaching methods

Taught classes. Students are encouraged to participate actively, to ask clarifications when needed and to create discussions. Students having attended the lessons should study two books among all previous listed books (the first belonging to group A and the second belonging to group B) and at least two third of the arguments debated in the lessons. Arguments debated in the lessons can be found also in Ams Campus and Iol.unibo.it.

Students not having attended the lessons should study three books (one compulsory belonging to group B).

Particular situations can be solved and discussed by email or during office hours.

 

Assessment methods

At the end of the course, an optional written final test will be available for students having attended the lessons.

This test will contain questions regarding topics discussed during the lessons and will require the students to analyze the language of a short prose written text (for example, a journal article or a modern literary piece). The evaluation of the exam will take into account: 1) ownership of the institutional understanding of the discipline 2) ability to deal with, to analyze and solve new problems 3) accuracy and precision of the expression style.

The written final test is optional. However, if the student will successfully pass the written test, he/she will be exonerated from the oral exam.

The final oral exam will NOT require the mnemonic repetition of the manuals but rather the application of the linguistic skills in real texts.

The written test cannot be repeated.

The marks of the written test cannot be added to the marks of the oral exam.

Students not attending the lessons or not studying the online didactic materials must study an additional book, for a total of at least three books.

Teaching tools

Written texts are the basic materials. During the lessons, however, will be used the traditional blackboard and the LIM, to visualize internet documents. Other didactics materials are available at the following link:

https://iol.unibo.it/

http://www.sba.unibo.it/it/almadl

http://www.sba.unibo.it/it/almare

http://www.treccani.it

http://www.accademiadellacrusca.it

 

Links to further information

http://www.unibo.it/it/servizi-e-opportunita/biblioteche-risorse-digitali-e-sale-studio

Office hours

See the website of Fabio Marri