- 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. 9220)
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course, students are able to analyze the main morpho-syntactic structures of Italian language and to compare them to the cross-linguistically more frequent structures. Students also know the main linguistic theories in the fileld of morphology and syntax
Course contents
The course will focus mainly on the critical discussion of some of the key concepts of traditional grammar, which will be reviewed in light of the latest linguistic theories and of the analysis of real data, taken from Italian and its varieties and other languages.
We will focus mainly on the notions of sentence (active and passive, dependent and independent), statement, subject, simple and complex word, markedness.
The aim of the course is to transmit the ability to tackle the study of language structures in a conscious and critical way and above all to acquire tools for the analysis of real data.
Readings/Bibliography
A. Thornton (2005), Morfologia, Roma, Carocci.
A. Colombo e G. Graffi (2017), Capire la grammatica. Il contributo della linguistica, Roma, Carocci
P. Acquaviva (2013), Il nome, Roma, Carocci
Lessons' notes
In replacement of lessons' note non attending students will read
G.F. Arcodia / C. Mauri (2016), La diversità linguistica, Roma, Carocci
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
The final exam is an oral colloquium dealing with the course contents; its aim it to evaluate the critical skills and methodological knowledge gained by the student.
Reaching a clear view of all the course topics as well as using a correct language terminology will be valued with maximum rankings. The capacity of building autonomous paths to connect different topics of the course will be appreciated.
Mnemonic knowledge of the course topics or not completely appropriate terminology will be valued with intermediate rankings.
Unknown topics or inappropriate terminology use will be valued, depending on the seriousness of the omissions, with minimal or insufficient rankings.
All the students will be asked to start from a subject freelychoosen by them.
All the students must register for the exam with Alamesami. The exam can be arranged in sdifferent rounds depending on the number of subscribers.
Teaching tools
In the lectures I'll make use of Power Point presentations that will be available to the students in the website https://campus.unibo.it/
Office hours
See the website of Nicola Grandi